R-SMF 6 ~Missing Lucy~
Lucy's p.o.v
Cold and unforgiving concrete walls loomed over me. They were no etchings I could see so that meant that either the ropes were the ones preventing me from using magic or the runes were invisible.
With no lights aside from a single dangling lightbulb (how original), I couldn't tell how long I had been held captive or where here was. Wherever it is, this was your standard holding cell down to the metal door separating me, the prisoner, fro them, the bad guys. Like I said. How pathetically original. Bad guys seemed to follow the same decorating guide. Probably something like 'Evil Decoration For Your Evil Lair: How To Best Instill Fear In Your Prisoners.'
I crack myself up.
I had deduced how I'd been captured, drugged rag – the remnant smelled lingered under my nose. Whichever asshole had planned this kidnapping had definitely done their homework in less than twenty-four hours. They had merely forgotten a teensy tiny detail.
I settled down to wait for the twins.
Sting's p.o.v
"Where the hell is she? I swear if that bitch Minerva had anything to do with this…" I didn't bother to hold my tongue regardless of the looks I was receiving from the locals. No one was more important than Lucy.
"Let's split up, we can cover more ground that way."
I looked at my brother in all but blood look at the city with the same apprehension I did. "Do you think she might have been taken to the guild? Minerva's insistent on marking her."
"You go then. I'll check the city."
I nod to him and run towards the guild. As I make my way there I try to filter through the the smells of the city to find that special blend that is Lucy.
I slow down as I near the guild and take a deep breath yet still there we no recent signs of her. I throw open the guild door ignoring the hateful looks thrown my way as I speed to the table that held this morning's occupants.
I screeched to a stop in front of the three awkward teens. "Have any of you seen Lucy?"
"Not since Rogue kicked us out of your house."
I looked at the green haired boy my blood freezing in my veins. "You sure?" His scent hadn't changed but maybe he saw her in passing and forgot.
"Sting, did something happen? Where's-" A roared from behind me stop Rufus from stopping from continuing.
"Where is Heartfilia Sting!?"
My hurt truly came to a stop then. "You mean she's not here?"
Raven eyes glared at me. "Would I be asking that question if she was?"
Her scent wasn't changing. Her scent wasn't changing. "Lucy's missing!" I blurt out.
Minerva's eyes narrowed. "You mean she disappeared like yesterday?"
"No! Nothing like yesterday. Lucy never- she never simply leaves. She tells us or gives us a warning. She doesn't just disappear!" I needed to stress that point. Lucy would never leave us, she-she loves us. We're more than just friends and partners, we are- we are-
"Deep breaths Sting. Take deep breaths. If you say she wouldn't leave then she wouldn't leave. We'll find her and then you and her and Rogue can go back to hiding from Minerva. Doesn't that sound fun?"
I struggled to calm my breathing but I did stop bending over. I meet Yukino's tranquil eyes and try rightening ed ting myself. "R-right."
"We'll split up. Six people cover more ground than two. I will tell father to send word if she shows in the guild, meet back at the town square in an hour." Yukino, Rufus and Orga nod at Minerva and scramble away.
"We will find her and I will brand her Eucliffe."
I nod at her and run out the door again. 'Just wait for us Lucy.'
We meet up again this time with Rogue being the one to run to us. "Did you find her?"
I force my feelings aside and grab his shoulder. I could feel small tremors and I was surprised at the change in roles. It was only an hour earlier that I had been on the comforting end. I knew how he felt, like our hearts were being torn to pieces and bleeding slowly out. A part of us was missing and we were furious. Someone had taken why was ours and they would pay. No one would touch Lucy and get away with it. She was our-
"Why aren't you picking up her scent or something that seems out of place?" We tensed at Rufus' interruption of our thoughts and snarled at him before recomposing oursleves.
"We just moved into the city," Rogue snapped. "We haven't familiarized ourselves with the area yet. Even if something was out of place we wouldn't have anything to reference it to."
"Concentrate Sting, you'll pick something up." Encouraged Yukino.
"I-I can't." They were too many unknown scents to swift through and two hours had passed. More people had come alive and her fading scent was hidden underneath all of them.
"Try harder then. She could be dying in a ditch somewhere." Minerva purred.
Rogue had Minerva by her neck before she could say anything else. "If you had anything to do with this…"
"I didn't but it stirred up your senses didn't it?"
It did. The thought of losing something of ours made our instincts take over. Nothing and no one would ever get between ours. I snatch her smell up a few seconds before Rogue did, vaguely aware of the Tigers that were rapidly following.
'Hang on Princess! We're on out way.'
Lucy's p.o.v
I tried testing the bonds to no avail – the rope was too tight and I wouldn't b able to break free without breaking or severely injuring something. I hear the locks on the door vying away and I glare at the intruder.
"Looks like you're awake girly. Don't worry you'll be out of those binds real soon." His sick smile left no doubt about what he was referring to. I'd be trading one pair of bonds for another if these bastards had their way.
I muster as much hate as I can into my next sentence. "Let. Me. Go."
He looked incredulously at me before letting out a full blown belly laugh revealing yellow rotting denture and a skull tattoo on the roof of his mouth. "Oh girly you're hilarious. You are not going anywhere. We saw what you did yesterday. Not one, not two but three types of magic! Imagine my boss' face when I told him that. And with that face girly," He grabbed my face and undressed me with his eyes, "-we'll fetch a pretty high price with your body. He'll I'd buy you myself if I could."
I would never be used the way he wanted. No one deserved to be a slave unless they were into that kind of thing and I certainly wasn't. I look at the guy dead in the eye. "One: get our fucking hands of me. Two: get your mind out the fucking gutter, and three: like hell am I going to be sold like fucking cattle."
"Watch your mouth girly or your next master will not hesitate to teach you better. Women these day need to be taught their place." Excuse me!? Who the fuck those this bastard think he is to tell me 'my place'? 'I'm going to kill this guy on principle alone.'
I renewed my struggles for freedom with a new fervor. No one told this woman how to behave.
"Stop struggling. You'll never get out of those. They're magic proof."
'That answers that question.' Break the rope and I was free.
I spy a switchblade in the bastard's pocket and smile, a plan forming in my head. "Can I use the bathroom?"
"You're not very bright are you girly? No." He mutters something about stupid women and my reasons to kill this guy increase. I fidget some more under the pretense of loosening the ropes.
"Are you deaf? Stop wasting energy."
Stop but only to stare at him. "And pee myself? Hell no!"
We continue to stare at each other and he smirks. "Fine you wanna use the bathroom? Go ahead girly." He points to a bucket that I failed to see earlier and blanch. 'What kind of assholes are these?'
He laughs at my expression. "What's wrong girly? I thought you wanted to pee. Well then, don't let me stop you. Any funny business however and I'll make you regret it."
My glare, and hatred for the man, increases. I stagger to my feet and promptly fall into the guy.
"I warned you!" He roared. "NO FUNNY BUSINESS!" He raises his hand and backhands me. I fell to the floor and spit out blood. My head meet the ground and it takes all my will power to not cry out.
It wasn't in vain. I tell myself as pain register more acutely. I had managed to grab the knife and was trying to make quick work of the ropes. "Y-you won't get a-away with this." Damn it I'm stuttering!
"But we have."
The ropes on my feet had broken, with minimal cuts thankfully and I knew I had to keep him talking. "When my brothers find you they will rip you to pieces. They'll make you regret ever looking in my direction and will enjoy using you as target practice. And you know what? I'll enjoy using you as target practice too." I had regained use of my hands and I could feel my magic flowing again.
One moment I was powerless at his feet and the other our roles were reversed. I had roundhouse kicked him and he was knocked unconscious. Unfortunately the sound attracted other guards but I was ready for that.
The door was slammed open and three men ran in. One look at the unconscious dude and they were all glowering at me. "What the hell happen here?"
I was back in my kneeling position, hiding any evidence of my release. "I-I don't k-know. O-one moment he was f-fine and the he just c-collapsed. I-I think he's…asleep."
It was a standoff between us. I wasn't sounding sincere and the men knew than to do such a thing so we all knew something was amiss. "What the fuck did you do to him, whore?"
I watch as black tendrils close the door with a smirk. "Fleuve d'etoiles."
Nobody's p.o.v
Two boys stood in front of a nondescript warehouse. Four more teens stopped next to them.
"This is it then?"
The enraged look the dark-light duo has was an answer in and of itself. The dark haired girl swallowed and looked back to the warehouse. "Right."
A tattooed hand falls on her shoulder. "Let's go then."
"Ne Rogue."
"Yes Sting?"
"You know they won't come out alive right?"
"Wouldn't have it any other way Sting."
The two shared a crazed look before charging at the door.
The door gave away and the battle started in earnest. Long blonde hair could be seen flashing around between bodies on the second floor landing. On the lower levels people were succumbing to the rage of the first two of the newcomers.
"D-demons!"
The minions' opinion weren't that far off. The two teens had a deadly aura around them and they were taking no prisoners. Their eyes pulsates with anger and scales crept along their skin.
Those not being taken down by them were being destroyed by the other four.
"Black Thunder Cannon: 120 mm!"
"Memory Make: Night Fall!"
"Open Gate of the Scales: Libra!"
The girl on the landing threw half a dozen men to plummet to the floor. "I was beginning to think that you forgot about me!"
"You know the twins! Like hound dogs those two. Gaia forbid you leave their sight!" Replied the Eastern beauty.
Goldie locks laughed and smiled at her. "You know Minie this might be the beginning of a beautiful friendship!"
"Shopping this week then?"
"It's a date."
"I hope I being invited to this girls day out." Butted in the only white haired girl in the building.
"Of course Yu, merely need to take out the trash first."
"Agreed." Echoed the other girls.
Soon all the members of the Dark Guild were round up and handed to the Magic Council reps. The newly founded groups of friends wee given their shares of the rewards and we're celebrating. All minus two who were hanging from the honey-eyed girl.
"We thought we lost you." Whispered the Dark one against her neck.
"Never to be seen again." Continued the other Light one.
Their scales were receding and their eyes regained their normal hue but the possessiveness lingered just beneath the surface. "I-I'm – oh Circe take me home."
The girl had collapsed in their arms in tremors and barely concealed terror. She barely registered the voices around here and hanged tighter to her pillars.
"She's in shock."
"Catatonic even -"
"-pushed her fear aside-"
"Go Sting, Rogue! Take her home!"
