As the man stepped closer to Lucy, she could almost smell his breath. "Well, what do we have here," he'd chided, "A little fairy without her friends. Looks like they all left you."
"H-how do you know that?" She rasped, pushing the words out of her dry throat.
"I can see all your memories, and I can take all of them away, but I don't think I'll do that just yet, I think I want to have a little fun first. I might add a few, or alter some, I still have no idea, but that's just only the beginning, I can see through all the moments you have hidden away. To me you are like an open book," He called everything out in glee, and his words made Lucy shudder where she stood.
He closed his eyes and Lucy could feel him probe around in her conscious. She blocked it as best shee could, although she knew what she could protect was very little, especially if she wanted to ba able to block him out. She gatheed all of her memories with Natsu, the one thing she wouldn't let him change, the one thing he couldn't. He could take everything else. But she couldn't bear to protect the one of him telling her she was off the team, and she left him a small strand.
"Oh, you poor thing, you were abandoned by them were you. But don't worry, I won't abandon you, I'll keep you forever. Especially since I haven't collected all your memories yet. Oh and of course I would know, I could feel the barrier you know." He added the last part as a looming threat before letting her off the chains but still keeping her in the room before leaving.
As soon as he left, Lucy looked for a place to escape from, knowing that if she was going to do it, it would have to be in one go. She searched around the room, but nothing immediately caught her eye. She sat back down in the middle of the room waiting for something to happen.
She didn't know how long she'd been sitting there before the guy came back in, but this time he brought a large table-like board with handcuffs on the side,cmagic cancelling, she assumed. He laid the board on the ground before putting her on it and continuing to probe into her mind.
This time, he wormed his way through her shield and selected the memory of when Natsu had saved her from Phantom Lord, rushing all the way their when he'd figured out she'd been taken. The memory replayed in Lucy's memory, but this time, instead of him rushing to save her, he never came, and she was stuck in the jail cell until she found a way out from the sky jail cell. Lucy struggled against the memory that she knew was wrong, but slowly, it began to sink into her memory and became all too familiar. Nobody saved her, so why would they save her know? she wondered.
When the man finally left, she could barely tell which of her memories were real and which of them were fake anymore. She cradled her head in the corner, searching one last time for any place to escape. This time, she found one, a few small pieces of crumbly wall leading up to a boarded window that she hadn't noticed before. She climbed up to the window using the foot hole created by the archaic wall and pried the boards off the window before she fell. She caught herself careful not to make a loud sound and sat down to rest a bit before attempting again since this time she only had to climb out the window.
After she had finally rested, she got up against the wall and used the same foot holes to pry herself up to the window. She had just gotten to the last one and had started lifting herself out when the last foot hole collapsed, leaving her feet dangling. Lucy was determined to pull herself up this time, because if she didn't, she would have to find a different way out. She wiggled her body and pushed off against a few loose or sticking out bricks and finally made it to the top of the window.
Apparently, that wasn't her only trial, because there was a rose bush under the window where she would have jumped making her escape. She thought for a long time about a way she could get around it, but when she found none, she decided to just jump. Just then, she heard the door open to her cell below and what must have been the guy keeping her captive. She heard him shout in anger as he saw her up there, and he started to furiously climb the wall.
Lucy knew she would have to jump now, becaus he was taller than her, so even without the last step he could probably make it up to the window too. And by the looks of it, he was stronger, so he probably wouldn't struggle the way she did. But Lucy also knew that she had to time it right, so she waited until he was just about in reaching distance of where the last foot hole had been when she jumped straight into the rose bush and ran towards the town.
As she was running, she feel the blood dripping down her legs, stinging as it was exposed to the outside air filled with dirt. She pushed on through the forest, not really knowing where she was going or where she needed to head, and her magic was still to weak to be used. She proved her point that she must be lucky, because she quickly came to another small village near the woods. She raced into a small shop and asked the old lady there if she could use her magic crystal ball, hoping the guild would listen to her plea for help despite the past.
The old woman looked slightly confused, but agreed. Lucy had finally gotten an answer from the guild, seeing Mira's face before the man from before appeared behind her. He quickly overpowered Lucy and brought her to the ground and dragged her away. "Save…..me….." was all that Lucy managed to croak out before she was dragged away, and she hoped that the guild would be able to hear her.