"N-natsu?" I step inside the tent. The man begins to laugh maliciously at the sight of me.

"Oh Lucy…."

The man cackles harder. I take this pause to look at the man cackling in front of me. The black eye and bruised lip that adorn his face clearly show that something has been happening. Natsu's hands are balled in fists and and his face is red from screaming.

"What's going on? I thought…" I trail off and continue to stare at the man who's laughing like an idiot.

"Lucy you should leave. Now." Natsu turns to face me, his fists uncurling as he steps closer. "You're not supposed to be here-" He begins to speak but something boils up inside of me. Rage confusion. What it is I do not know, but whatever it is it makes me stop him mid sentence.

"Why is he here?" I hiss, my fist clenching the ends of my shirt. My knuckles turn white and it takes everything in me not to punch him. "He's one of the men from the Central City right? Why are you even allowing someone like him to stay alive in this camp." I spit out angrily. I don't stop there. "You realize what they do? They're trained for things like this! As soon as you turn your back he's gone. Off telling the boss all of our little secrets. Natsu do you even realize the strength of the Central City? You realize if they wanted to they could bomb his whole camp in seconds right?!" I don't know how but my voice has risen to a yell and i can feel hot tears beginning to form. The cackling in the background does nothing to calm me.

"That's enough!" a voice behind yells firmly. I turn to see the scarlet haired Erza behind me, Grey at her side. "Lucy you are to leave immediately and tell no one of what you saw understand?"

Chills race though my body and I nod slightly.

"As for you Natsu I thought I told you only to keep an eye on the prisoner, NOT to attempt to bust him to pieces. You will be punished accordingly."

She looks over and me with a glare in her eye. "Makarov is expecting you in a tent three down from here. Go and don't be late!" she instructs.

I scurry from the tent and make my way to where Erza had ordered. Thoughts about the prisoner come back to me. Fear fills my mind as I think back to the city I had once gone to for supplies up in flames. The red monsters destroying everything they touched. I did not want to imagine that as the fate of this camp, and everyone in it.

As i reach the tent Erza had instructed me to proceed to, a new feeling falls to the pit of my stomach. Nervousness.

I enter the passage and take a step inside. A man looks up at me and smiles.

"You must be Lucy."

Sorry for another short chapter and late update! Love you anyway!