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Chapter 10
Lucy woke up to cold water dripping on her face. Thankfully, she was in a semi-dark place and so when she opened her eyes, it didn't hurt.
She found that she was in a chamber that was closed off by vertical bars from what seemed to be a hallway and that the walls were also cobblestone like the ruins she had been in when they had captured her. Her guess was that she was in another part of the fallen castle.
She moved to a smoother place on the floor, the part she was on was uncomfortable, and was satisfied until ten minutes later when her butt got sore from sitting on such a hard surface. She debated switching to another position, but in the end, she got up and stretched her cramped muscles (and wondered where the hell her prince charming was).
Lucy had been reaching down to touch her toes when someone spoke, "Awake are you?"
She stiffened but he continued, "That is good." He snapped his fingers and two people arrived. "So tell me, Lucy Heartfillia, where is the specter that the queen left you?"
She started at him not comprehending, "What?"
Unfortunately for her, he took that as a sign of defiance, "Do not test my patience, girl."
"I don't get what you mean." She said indignantly, Lucy may have been scared but she still had her pride.
His face turned to one of anger, snapped his fingers once more, and the fey beside him stiffened before walking up to her. Lucy took this as an opportunity to observe them.
One was of the female gender, one was not. One had shoulder length, blue hair, the other had spiky, long, black hair. One had no piercing, one had some all over his body. They looked completely different yet Lucy could tell they were close. She wasn't sure if it was the way they carried each other, the way they slowly leaned toward each other for comfort, or if it was the way they had glanced at each other at least five times already.
It was only when her arms when taken by the blue haired girl and put behind her like she was in hand cuffs that she was brought back to the present. The guy stopped in front of her, cracked his knuckles, and chuckled, but unlike Natsu's, it was one that sent a shiver of fear down her back. However, he didn't do anything except look at what Lucy assumed to be the boss as if he was waiting for a command.
"Don't do anything yet, Gajeel." He sneered, enjoying the position of his prisoner.
Lucy looked up in surprise, Gajeel had been the name of the faerie that had attacked her car which had made Aquarius disappear from her life. It was then that the impact of what the boss had said hit her, they were going to torture her.
"I'm going to ask you again and if you don't answer me, then we are going to have to get physical."
It was then that she started rambling in fear, "I swear I don't know anything! I just got sucked into this world…" Just how long had she been out? "..a day ago. They- Natsu, Erza, and Gray, that is- haven't even answered all of my questions…"
When Lucy had not joined them, they had turned around to see what had happened to make her linger only to find that she was no longer there. She couldn't have gone back to the human world; the Gateway moved in the fearie world and remained stationary in the human world.*
"Lucy?" Erza questioned, hoping that she was hiding behind something (exactly what, she wasn't sure).
Natsu joined her, "Luce!?" He had taken a liking to that nickname.
"LUCY!" Gray had to be the one to scream it (and strip).
After a few minutes of shouting and searching, they agreed on a plan. They would split up. It wasn't the best plan but they were short on time, Lucy could be in the hands of the Unseelie court for all they knew. Or she could have gotten lost (most of them knew that probably wasn't the case considering black steel Gajeel had already been sent after her) because humans (which Natsu didn't even think she was) sometimes got allured to go to a certain siren filled lake or some other place where they get eaten, hypnotized, or faced a far worse fate than those (there was a reason it was called the most dangerous place, duh).
Just as they were about to split up, Erza suddenly remembered something she had brought with her, "Here, take these." And she shoved a cylinder shaped object in their hands.
Natsu instantly recognized what they were, flares, faerie flares (they weren't the normal kind). It signaled to faeries by compressing a decent amount their magic in it, then letting it out with pop. You couldn't see the mini explosion but you could sense the amount of magic in the air and it wouldn't fade for at least a three days.
He took them and nodded understanding the unspoken words, signal once you have found her, and rushed off as fast as a gazelle being chased by a cheetah because (for some odd reason) he couldn't stand her being in danger. It just made him want to destroy everything in sight but knew it wouldn't help so he didn't (it was such a shame, he thought).
He stopped, sweating and breathing hard, when he came across some ruins that had her scent drifting off into the blowing wind. He felt his heart beat a little faster, she was here or had been here. "LUCE!"
There was no response except for an echo that made him feel hollow. She wasn't here, he had fai- Wait! He could track her scent (couldn't forget his all mighty nose). Natsu followed the scent and found himself going deeper in the ruins, completely forgetting about the flare sitting in his pocket.
Meanwhile, Erza was getting increasing angrier at herself. It had been a while since she had escorted a human to Faerie Tail, she mostly went for the fighting ones. In fact, this one had been a beat up these people type of job, but she had finished earlier and so had headed out earlier to get back. The people she had fought had been more powerful than she had thought (stupid Unseelie guilds) and she needed to recuperate (being in the world they were supposed to be made them heal faster). And so on the way back she had ran into them, and joined them on their escort mission.
"Damn it!" She slammed her fist against the nearest tree (poor tree), "I was right behind her, how did I not notice the spell taking place? Damn it!"
Erza didn't know why she was so angry, she barely knew the girl, yet even so, she felt so… "Argh!"
As she thought of Lucy, she saw the girl smiling in her mind and thought, Lucy shouldn't have to experience this, the war is between faeries, not between humans, damn it.
That thought seemed to trigger an image that ran in front of her eyes, it was Lucy smiling as a child wearing a pretty, pink dress. She seemed to be in mid-twirl and her eyes sparkled with life and amusement.
Erza lifted her hand to her cheek and found that she was crying. She quickly brushed them off and blinked until she could see properly, when she could, she started running again. She did have to find Lucy to find out if what she had seen was real, but until then, she would have to wait.
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