Chapter 7

Lucy Heartfilia- head maid to the second prince Sting Eucliffe, a former slave and a assassin

Wendy Marvell- Younger sister to Natsu who became a maid because she adores Lucy

Erza scarlet- assistant head maid to Sting, a close friend to Lucy

Prince Sting Eucliffe- the second prince and the first in line to the throne

Prince Laxus Dreyar –The first prince, Stings half-brother His mother is one of lower birth so he ranks behind Sting in order of succession

Natsu Dragneel- Son of Igneel and Grandine and will inherit the title of marquees in the future, elder brother to Wendy Marvell

Rogue- A demon

Gray Fullbuster- a wizard now staying at the castle

Rufus Lore- a knight who spends most of his time doing experiments in his room

Freed Justine- a chamberlain the first prince Laxus

Dobengal- cousin to Laxus and Sting seems to be nice but is he?

Midnight- Cobra's right hand man, helped train Lucy to become who she is today

Cobra- head of a assassin guild originally bought Lucy and nearly killed her with his vicious training

"hold it there" Lucy commanded in a strong voice pointing the knife at the black cloaked figure's back

"as I thought" the figure got up "the information leaked" the figure removed his hood to reveal

"master Dobengal!" Lucy shouted

"though I didn't except the information to be leaked to you" he sadi holding a red wrapped thing while waving his hand

"yes" Lucy agreed "we didn't find this out alone"

"oh really? Dobengal smiled a sly smile "using this bomb here" he held up the red wrapped thing "would cause a great deal of harm not only to Prince Sting but also to the entire town"

The blonde looked at the man in front of her dead in the eye "to involve your own town and citizens Just because you want to get rid of Prince Sting…."

"DON'T PUT ME ON THE SAME LEVEL AS HIM!" he yelled at her a crazed look in his brown eyes

Dobengal composed himself a bit before continuing "I have already taken precautions I would never consider peoples lives as something that can be thrown away like garbage" he clenched his teeth "unlike that bastard"

Lucy gave him a hard look "the people of the town wont be injured or killed and Prince Sting will be put in his place I'll personally make sure of it" Dobengal said while giving a slight chilling chuckle

"before you do that I shall slit your throat" Lucy advanced quickly towards him with a sharp knife in her hand

The brown haired man started laughing "haven't you noticed?" he asked before dropping a green ball on the ground

Dobengal had dropped a smoked bomb and the sound it made shook the earth

'damn a smokescreen' Lucy was pushed back by the force of the smoke bomb

*BACK AT THE TOWN*

The citizens had heard the sound

"what?"

"what was that loud sound" every body chattered

The Prince looked at the hill with a confused look on his face

+BACK WITH LUCY+

'damn it, don't tell me he was waiting for this opportunity'

"wait" the blonde screamed

"you were always taught to pay attention to your surroundings" a man with white and black hair wearing a black and white fur vest and yellow pant came out of the mist with a long double edged sword

Lucy threw her knife behind her at the man only for it to be deflected by his sword, and when she turned around she was shocked

"long time no see, though I didn't think we'd be meeting like this"

"midnight!" Lucy looked at him eyes wide "why are you…"

Lucy had a flash back to just before she got sold to the aristocrats remembering his word "aristocrats, guards, and assassins the next time we meet we'll be on opposing sides" Midnight's words echoed in her mind

"you were hired by master Dobengal" Lucy laughed unpleasantly

Midnight smiled his sinister smile "that is confidential" he said before attacking Lucy with his long sword

Lucy kept blocking his attacks with her knife ended chain whip for a few more minutes

"wow your your skills have definitely improved but…" Midnight began "you still have a long way to go"

Just when Midnight was about to cut Lucy down a man with sword appeared and blocked his attack and went after midnight.

Lucy's eyes went wide to see storm blue eyes, and blond hair wearing a dark blue jacket with black detailing and a silver ruffled scarf around his neck. Dark slacks adorned his legs with long boots, two swords sheaths were slung along his hips.

"what this man there was information of such a guard

'huh princ-'

"your complaints are annoying" Laxus's deep voice echoed through the hill

'Prince Laxus, what's he doing here'

Lucy sat back and watched with wide eyes as the two man's duel continued

'he's strong only up until now I've only ever heard of his skills! His fencing skills are definitely not those of a nobles'

Midnight was beginning to grow frustrated with not being able to land a hit on the eldest prince

'it's like he does it for a living like a guard'

Lucy continued to watch the match unfold before her eyes

'it can evenly match a assassins.. no he's pushing Midnight back'

Laxus grabbed Lucy by the waist "quickly let's go" he yelled before jumping of the cliff her in tow

Midnight crouched down looking over the side of the cliff "should I pursue them? He asked

"no that's ok, we weren't requested to assassinate this time" a man with red hair and purple eyes appeared "plus we were unexpectedly interrupted so let's look for another opportunity"

Laxus was carrying Lucy under his arm walking down a forest road

"p-please PUT ME DOWN" Lucy yelled only for the first Prince to drop her on the ground with a "oomph" from Lucy

Lucy nursed her hurt head

'so Midnight is in this country, don't tell me' Lucy suddenly became on alert 'Cobra is also'

Lucy looked at the man with blonde hair before her "it looks like he wishes to kill Sting himself" Lucy told him

Laxus's blue eyes hardened "if he wanted to kill him he would've left it to those assassins" he looked to the side at Lucy "instead he only used them to distract you, he probably has a grudge to settle with that bastard"

The entire time Lucy was silent just looking at Prince Laxus till "coming all the way here to help Prince Sting why would you do that" Laxus looked away "I already told you I wont let him be killed by anyone but me"

"WAIT!" Lucy yelled "don't tell me you came alone"

"what's wrong with that?" Laxus asked

"and Freed"

"left him behind"

The two blondes bickering came to a stop when they heard some rustling threw a few trees

"not good another obstruction is here" Laxus told Lucy "hurry"

"Prince Laxus" Laxus turned his head only to be met with sight of shuriken flying at him and Lucy's chained whip coming out and blocking them

"I wont let you hinder Master Dobengal" a girl with long white hair that had a headband of two blue ribbons came into sight. The girl was wearing a blue short sleeved maid dress that had white just were her breasts were and underneath was a dark blue bodice that had white strings and developed into a full skirt that reached her mid thigh, white lace showed underneath the skirt, with a white apron draped across the lower half of the dress. A single blue bow was at the top of her breasts. The young women had three shuriken in each hand

"you're the servant that was with Master Dobengal" Lucy looked shocked

"hurry and go" Laxus spoke "I'm not your master the one you should be protecting is him" Lucy looked at the blond man wide eyed

"I wish you luck" than Lucy disappeared

"his highness the First Prince Laxus Dreyar if you're being a hindrance I wont go easy on you" the white haired girl told him

"it's useless to hold back" Laxus stood with his arms crossed "just come at me with all you got"

*meanwhile in the town*

The town citizens were in a panic

"huh"

"where did this fog come from"

"why is there fog"

"aah well well" the second prince looked to the side to see Dobengal stocking his way through the fog "if it isn't the town's lord coming to personally welcome me"

"all of a sudden it's difficult to see" Sting said looking down at Dobengal "it makes it hard to navigate. Will you guide me?"

"aren't you going to draw your sword? Or have you already given up?" Dobengal looked at the Second Prince

"I wont draw my sword because it isn't necessary." Sting gave him a smile "and it isn't my role"

Dobengal looked down eyes wide at the prince disbelieved at what he just heard "besides if I could be killed by someone like you I wouldn't be alive"

"than" Dobengal grounded his teeth and drew the sharp dagger "will you still be alive after this?!" and he lunged at the prince

Crimson red blood dripped on the ground

Lucy had gotten there just in time to save Prince Sting but managed to get hurt herself

"you're late Lucy"

"my deepest apologies Prince Sting"

"oh aren't you going to use your weapon" the Prince asked

"you...!"

"I don't need a weapon for this" Lucy answered

She grabbed the edge of the brown haired mans clothes and slammed onto the ground

"this one arm is enough" the blond women had Dobengal pinned to the ground

"the smoke is starting to clear let's deal with him later, it would be troublesome to kill him here" Sting told Lucy

"yes" Lucy got off of Dobengal but held her hand at his throat to intimidate him "understood"

*meanwhile*

The girl with long white hair was thrusted against the cliff wall as Laxus's sword came just two inches to the side of her head and her eyes widened partially in disbelief and partially in fear.

"why don't you land the finishing blow" the girl put her hand on her knees "it better not be a foolish reason like the fact that I'M A WOMAN"

Laxus put his sword away "I deemed you not worth killing. It would be a wasted effort"

The women stood up straight "what sweet person"

"indeed" the blue eyed man agreed

"compared to you Prince Sting is many more times more crafty" the woman wore a sly smile "your softness is cute, you cant possibly defeat your brother"

Laxus was silent

"PRINCE LAXUS!" Lucy came carrying the defeated lord on her back "you are safe"

"master Dobengal" the young maid said shocked

"you" Laxus began

"yes"

"you really don't have a women's charms"

"what?!"

Soon people came to take Dobengal and his maid away

"I truly thank you if you hadn't come in time ….." Lucy trailed off Prince Laxus looked to the side at her "however to our regret this expedition was a failure" Lucy looked down "I wasn't strong enough and the people were brought to confusion. It's the same as disgracing Prince Sting"

"I wouldn't think that" Laxus stood up

"huh?" Lucy looked up to see fireworks

*in the town*

Sting continued riding on his horse and looked up and back to see fireworks along with different colored flowers being shot out of the sky

"what?"

"fire works and flowers"

"so pretty" a little girl with long dark blue hair said as she caught a pink flower

"so that loud sound from awhile ago was the sound of fireworks"

"a production was put on for our sakes"

*with Lucy*

"prince Laxus this is…" Lucy caught a dark blue flower and the blond women turned her head to look at the prince

"….."

"what" Laxus snapped after feeling her stare for two minutes

"oh nothing" Lucy gave him a smile "thank you very much

*Elsewhere*

"why do we have to help Prince Sting" Romeo complained

"it's Prince Laxus's orders so be quite and keep moving" Freed snapped

"I get it"

'older brother' Sting thought looking at the fire works

Down below the pretty walls of Prince Laxus and Sting's home was a dirty place lined with old reddish gray bricks. Barred doors stood in front of what looked like prison cells. The only thing that was in the cells was a cot with a single pillow and sheep's wool blanket along with a metal bucket. The concrete floor was stained yellow, red and brown.

"I hardly knew the guy I just him the money and left" came the desperate voice of the Lord Dobengal

"I see" Lucy stood before the cage wearing a maid's dress.

The dress and straight neckline that was white until her waist which black from where her waist got tucked and extended into one layer of ruffled skirt and 3 layers of black. The dress had black long bell sleevs with wrist part being white. Two white belts where buckled around her waist giving her a dress a corset like look. Three matching leather arm band were around her biceps and where black. There was a medium sized bow on her chest. A thin black ribbon was tied around her neck and on it hung a little star. Her blond hair was up in a high ponytail tied in a bow with ribbon. She wore black and white stripped socks with long black boots that had a slight heel to them. Her black chained whip ung around her hips on a hook on the belt.

"will I be excuted"

"yes perhaps" Dobengal hung his head "you commited a grave crime after all"

Lucy stepped more forward towards the bars "what made you do this, would you allow to hear you reasons"

"prince Sting is the one who killed my relative" Dobengal stated "even though my uncle commited one small crime he approved the execution of his entire family! Father was also present when Prince Sting ordered the execution" Dobengal rembered how his father fell ill " due to that my entire family was scrutinized by our peers and the constant stress caused father to fall ill from anxiety" Dobengal yelled " ALL OF OUR MISFORTUNES WERE BROUGHT UPON MY PRINCE STING"

"Master Dobengal" Lucy said in loud voice "Prince Sting actions may have certainly seemed heartless and ruthless but he is also concerned about you and this matter" Lucy looked to the side " Prince Sting is aware of your pain"

"from what I understand that man has already expressed his deepest apologies. I think there is no reason to do anything else" Prince Sting sat at his desk talking to too older men

One man was tall and buff had white beard, he wore a big necklace of giant red beads. A scarlet suit jacket adorned his upper body along with a pair of jade green slacks. The white gloves on his hands matched the cuffs on his jacket. "if you are lenient now it might become a diffuclt problem to deal with in the future"

"this may be a sstrcit decision to make for someone so young but please understand the reasons" another man that had shoulder length light brown hair and dark eyes. He wore a black fancy suit jacket along with a red choker that had silver spikes on it. Plack pants adorned his legs with brown sjoes.

"I understand" Prince Sting put hid head in his hands " I approve of the execution of the people on that list….if possible please make it painless as possible for them…my apoglogies for presenting you with such a diffuclt decision"

"your lying" Dobengal looked up at her

"this matter was to be discussed with your father. Clearing the doubts was the pretense of this inspection however because of this turn of events" Lucy explained

"your lying"

"master Dobengal"

"that's bastard…it's a lie"

"YOUR LYING"

Lucy slammed the dungeon dorr shut to be met with "prince Sting why are you here"

"I was anxious for a moment" the blonde man looked straight ahead "even though he already is going to die you still spoke up for me" he looked at her " you are a truly remarkable subordinate"

"you really think so" Lucy asked

"yes very much so" Sting's blue eyes looked directly at her

Lucy closed her eyes tilting her head down "just covering the bases to make sure there wont be anymore trouble concerning the matter in the future" Lucy looked at him "was it diffuclt"

"the thought of apogizing to him crossed my mind. I don't feel anything no matter what I do though I try to feel pity I don't feel anything I am probably abnormal….everything is a performance expressions, words all of it. Doing whatever is necessary that is the way ive been taught to behave. I was expected to be that way…andthat is how I became." Sting touched Lucy's hair "of course I will never hesitate to give you a order even if it places your life in danger" his hand movedf to her face "in that regard do you think im heartless?"

"I would be worried if you hesitated please make use of me as you desire "

'because without you my reason for being would be lost'

Sting smiled "acting at social gatherings have always been my strong point . but for a long time my crying performance waspoor. How do you think I was able to dance around that?"

"hmmm…thinking of a actual sad event"

"of course that is all good, so Lucy shall I teach you something good? When a person is holding in there ;aughter it would appear as if there crying" Sting smiled a true smile at Lucy