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Well earlier this week I posted an author's note about my 'teacher' problem, and I thank you guys for responding. Well I'm going to choose based on the feedback I got, but I still want anyone who didn't respond to review or message me on whether I should use a villain from the anime/manga or an OC for my main antagonist for this story. Thanks!
Well here's chapter 14 so read and review!
Chapter 14: Too Late
Lucy woke up to the worst hang over ever.
She looked around and she couldn't remember much, but she did remember the thing she wanted to forget but knew she couldn't. She smiled as she remembered Natsu had saved her from that pervert.
She got up and walked to her bathroom and took an aspirin, and then she went to the living room. She saw Cana passed out on the couch and saw a note on the counter.
Learn how to drink it said in scribbled hand writing. She didn't know who it was and couldn't remember how she got home. She shrugged and started to get ready.
She felt so much better after a shower; she decided to go to the agency. When she got there, she made her way to the dining room.
Inside she recognized a pink head; she made a coffee and sat next to him.
"Morning" he greeted as she sat down.
"Good morning, do you remember what happened?" she asked.
"Yeah I had to carry your drunken ass home" he snapped grumpily, but he blushed remembering their close encounter. He looked away so the pretty blond wouldn't see.
"Really, oh my god, sorry" she sulked.
"Yeah you were pretty drunk. I drove you home and called Gray to take Cana home in her car so I could give him a ride from your place. So after you guys went home, we went home and life went on" he explained.
"Oh" Lucy blushed. He smiled and shook his head "Ready to go?" She nodded and they left the dining room.
"Chief I finished the autopsy on the man who was beaten" Levy informed walking into his office.
"Great what did you find" he asked her.
"His name was Joseph Ride, 56 and a retired foster care manager"
He nodded "Any connection?"
"Yes, one"
He gestured for her to continue then she gulped "You see his most famous case was finding Natsu Dragneel, a loss cause, a home."
The chief nodded and thought for a moment "Are you going to see him today?"
"Yes, I am going to show him the Brown's bodies"
"Don't mention this to him or anyone in fact, for now this'll be our secret"
Levy nodded and left the room.
Natsu and Lucy were both in her office looking through their own assignments.
"Anything?" Natsu asked Lucy.
Lucy's mouth was in a hard line as she stared at the information on the three girls.
"No, I don't know where to start!"
"Well, I have to wait for Levy to finish the autopsies on the Brown's bodies, I'm sure she'll be done soon" Natsu replied lying on her couch.
Lucy sighed, so far she only knew who these three girls were, and there was no connection between them that she could see.
Natsu's phone broke her train of thought, he answered it quickly.
"Dragneel" he said. All he did was listen then say yes then hung up.
"Who was it?" Lucy asked, wondering why his phone call was so short.
"That was Levy and she finished the autopsy"
Lucy's eyes widened "Are you going now?"
"Yes you want to come?" Natsu said at her door.
"Yes!" Lucy said excited and ran after Natsu.
She had her folder in her hand and locked her office door then they went to the 9th floor. Lucy has only been in the science unit once, when she walked out it reminded her of a hospital except there wasn't any patients. There were a lot of people in white lab coats; she could see different rooms that held different things. Natsu led her to a certain room.
In the room there were metal tables, tools, and large metal drawers at the back. Two drawers were out and there were two bodies on it. It was the Brown's bodies, it was covered by a sheet and the bodies were very pale. Levy and Gajeel were both standing next to them.
"Lucy" Levy said and hugged the blond. Lucy hugged back "Levy it is so nice to see you"
Levy smiled and waved to Natsu and walked back to Gajeel, they followed her.
"Gajeel why are you here?" Lucy asked the black haired man.
"To record what she says, why are you here?" he retorted.
"Natsu asked me to come"
Gajeel nodded and looked at the pink haired man.
"Let's begin" Natsu said looking at Levy. Levy nodded and grabbed her chart and a tray that was on the side.
"So the identities have been confirmed, and the bullet that was used to kill Seth Brown was…" she stopped.
"Levy what's wrong?" Lucy asked the girl. Levy sighed then continued "The bullet was an FTBI bullet"
Natsu and Gajeel's eyes widened but Lucy was confused. "What's an FTBI bullet" Lucy asked confused.
"Well at FTBI we use certain kind of bullets and we are the only agency that uses it" Natsu explains.
"So someone used one of our guns?" Lucy asked anxiously.
"No I doubt someone could get their hand on one of our guns, I think someone is betraying the agency" Gajeel seethes angrily.
"But who would betray us?" Levy asked.
"It could be anyone" Natsu says stroking his bottom lip.
"We can discuss this with chief. Levy do you have anything else to share?"
Levy nodded "Natsu could you tell me everything you found out about the Browns?"
"Sure. Let's see…Nancy was 37 years old and her son Seth was 14, he is in middle school and his mother worked at Blue Pegasus University as a teacher and—"
"Wait she worked at the University?" Lucy cut him off.
"Yes why?" Natsu said confused. Lucy didn't answer she was busily looking through her folder that held the information on the three girls.
"Look" she said pointing at the girls records. They looked at where she was pointing and noticed all three girls were from Blue Pegasus University.
"So this could be the connection" Natsu said.
"Yes! Do you think we could go there now?"
"Sure let's go" Natsu said running out.
"Bye Levy, bye Gajeel" Lucy said running after the door.
"Bye Natsu and Lucy!" Levy called after them.
"They should just go out already" Gajeel grunted.
Levy laughed "I know, like us" she smiled hugging him.
"Yeah" Gajeel smiled lightly and kissed her forehead.
Natsu was driving while Lucy was reading more information in the passenger's seat. She was fixing the shirt she was wearing, it was a dressy, comfortable shirt but it still felt weird to wear this in the field. She wore a suit jacket over it and long pants and black shoes. Her gun was inside her jacket in its holster. "Why don't you have to wear a suit?" she asked looking at Natsu's attire, he was pants and a shirt.
"Because I'm in the secret agents unit, we don't have to wear suits" he explained taking the cut off towards the university. Lucy pouted and stared out the window. Natsu looked at her with a lopsided smile "So what's our plan?" he asked as he drove into the Blue Pegasus University.
"Well the murders are connected by this university so I wanted to ask some girls so let's head to the dorms" Lucy said running from the car.
"Sounds good" Natsu said and ran to the entrance. There was a handsome man at the front desk, he had blond hair and looked fairly young.
"Miss Lucy!" he said with surprise as they walked in.
"Eve!" Lucy said stopping in front of the desk.
Natsu was next to her staring at the boy.
"Miss Lucy what brings you here?" he asks coming out from the behind of the desk.
"We need to go to the girl dorms now" Natsu told him.
"What's the rush?" Eve said grabbing Lucy's hand then kissing it.
Lucy blushed and stared at him. "We need to go now!" Natsu growled grabbing Lucy's hand away; she turned red at the action.
"Fine fine I'll give you the key but Lucy you must go visit Professor Bob and the trimen" Eve said grabbing the key.
"I will but we need to go" Lucy said grabbing the key from him then running to the dorms. They jogged to the entrance of the doors but were stopped by another handsome man. "Lucy!" he exclaimed and grabbed her in a hug.
"H-Hibiki!" she said with shock.
"I missed you!" he said hugging her harder.
"I missed you too but we need to go" she said trying to push him off but failing.
Natsu grabbed Hibiki's shirt collar and ripped him off Lucy.
Hibiki glared at Natsu and Natsu returned the gesture.
Lucy blushed and told Hibiki what was happening and he gladly let them go.
Right when Hibiki was waving bye there was an ear-splitting scream from the inside of the dormitory.
"Get security!" Lucy ordered Hibiki.
Lucy turned to find Natsu gone, through the window she saw him running up the stairs, gun in hand. Lucy grabbed her gun and ran after him. There was more screaming and other girls were running out in panic and fear.
"Move, FTBI" Lucy ordered busting pass girls who were bumping into her.
Natsu made it to the third floor; he heard the most screaming coming from this floor. The hall was already cleared and it was empty, all the doors were ajar. He ran down the hallway, there were doors on each side.
As he ran, when he passed a certain door, he had to duck as a knife sliced where his head had been.
A man with yellow hair had come from the door in the hallway with a knife in his hand.
"Don't move" Natsu ordered pointing the gun at him.
The man started laughing and flew the knife at Natsu. Natsu fired but the knife flew into his leg.
The man pushed him aside and ran. Natsu ripped the knife out and threw it away; he saw the man's blood trails and followed it.
Lucy ran up the stairs as fast as she could, when she got to the third floor a girl ran into her. She recognized her immediately.
"Jenny!" Lucy yelled and grabbed the swaying girl.
Her eyes were wide with terror.
"Lucy you must help us" she cried as she clutched her side.
Blood was pouring through her hands.
Lucy's eyes widened, she put her gun away and grabbed the girl's arm.
"We need something to stop the bleeding" Lucy panicked
"No we need to help her" she said running to her room.
Lucy followed her and saw a girl on the bed, blood covered the room and there was broken furniture everywhere. A giant red stain painted the bed under her.
Lucy rushed to her and saw her holding her stomach. Lucy looked at the woman's face and her blood ran cold.
"Maria!" Lucy screamed rushing to her former student.
"What happened?" Lucy yelled grabbing a blanket and shoving it on the girl's stomach.
"A man came in and stabbed her, then he went after me" the girl screamed grabbing her roommates face.
"Lucy" Maria cried staring at the blond.
"Hey it will be okay" Lucy soothed the two girls. They were both crying. Lucy stared at them with sadness.
"Jenny I need you to put something on your wound, I will help Maria" Jenny nodded and grabbed a towel and put it to her side. It started to turn red immediately.
The blanket Lucy was holding was no longer blue it was pure red. Lucy's hands were started to get soaked as the blood seeped through the blanket.
Maria was making choking sounds as blood came from her mouth; she started a fit of coughing. Jenny went by her side and stared at her roommate with tears. "It will be okay" Maria whispered putting a hand on Jenny's face.
Jenny nodded as tears trickled down her face. She held her hand.
"Thank you Lucy please don't give up" Maria said weakly and Lucy started to panic.
Lucy stared as Maria's hand fell from Jenny's cheek leaving a smear of blood on her pale face.
Jenny howled and hugged Maria for dear life.
Lucy looked down with sadness and took her hands away.
Hibiki, Professor Bob, and security ran into the room.
Professor Bob ran towards them and grabbed the shaking Jenny.
He looked at Maria, her face was pale and her brown hair matted with blood. Her eyes were closed and she had a slight smile on her face.
He looked back at Jenny "It's okay" he whispered holding her broken form.
"She protected me" Jenny shrieked reaching for Maria. Pr. Bob held her back as she started to shake.
Hibiki ordered security to get help. He stared at the room with pain.
He walked forward and stroked Maria's brown hair. "Damn it" he yelled.
Lucy couldn't take this and looked at Pr. Bob and he nodded at her.
Lucy ran out the room and down the hall. She followed a trail of blood. She grabbed her gun and the handle became red like her hands. She followed the trail to a door that led to the roof.
Lucy ripped open the door and saw Natsu and a yellow-haired man fighting.
"Don't move" she ordered.
Natsu turned at the wrong time to look at her, the man kicked him.
Natsu slid backwards on the ground.
The man laughed "Look who made it"
"Put your hands up" Lucy yelled at the man.
The man stared at her then sprinted at her, Lucy could barely take a breath when she found herself hunched over. He had kicked her stomach. She fell to the ground, gasping for breath. "Lucy!" Natsu yelled and ran at her. He was stopped when something cold touched his head.
"I wouldn't move if I were you" the man said pointing the gun at Natsu's head.
Natsu stared at him with hatred and backed away as the man pushed the gun harder into his head.
Lucy was coughing on the floor; she was finally able to breathe normally. She stood up and ran at the man.
The man didn't see her coming until she swung a fist at him.
He dodged and Natsu took the time to hit the gun out of his hand. The gun skidded somewhere, Lucy dodged the man's punches but he kicked her feet and she fell on her stomach. The man raised his hand to hit her but Natsu tackled him before he could. They started rolling on the floor. Lucy saw her gun and crawled towards it, she cocked and aimed.
In her sights she saw Natsu and the man on the floor.
Natsu was on top of him, punching him. He saw Lucy and backed away from the man.
The man coughed and looked at her with cold eyes.
"Don't move or I will shoot" she said trying to sound brave.
The man laughed "Bitch I don't take orders from you" he said and started standing up.
Lucy became infuriated and shot the gun. The bullet penetrated the man's knee and he fell to the ground.
"You fucking shot me!" he snarled at her. "I'll do it again if you move!" she yelled with shaking hands.
Natsu was able to find his gun; he aimed it at the man.
"This just isn't fair" the man said putting his hands up.
Natsu walked forward, he got his handcuffs ready but a sudden wind took him by surprise.
There was a loud sound of propellers and the wind was whipping wildly. Lucy looked up and saw a black helicopter; there was a pilot and a man with a gun.
Her eyes widened when she saw him cock it at her.
"Move" Natsu yelled pushing her out of the way.
They scrambled behind a wall as more bullets were fired at them. Natsu looked over the wall and saw the man running to the landing helicopter.
"Zancrow did you finish the job?" the pilot asked as the man got in.
"Of course" Zancrow replied. Natsu growled and ran at the helicopter; the shooter didn't see him until he was close.
Natsu shot his gun and hit the shooter, he fell out of the helicopter with a thud.
"Sorry, maybe next time Dragneel" Zancrow laughed wildly as Natsu's bullets ricocheted off the helicopter's windows.
The helicopter was hovering away.
Natsu kept shooting at the leaving helicopter until he had no more bullets.
"Damn it" he yelled.
Lucy was pointing her gun at the shooter.
He was face down and unmoving. Natsu walked next to Lucy and stared at the man. Natsu turned the man over with his foot; the man had a bullet wound in his chest from Natsu and a wound on his head from the fall.
Natsu put two fingers on the man's neck and felt no pulse. He shook his head and Lucy frowned. Natsu sat down and put his hands on his face with frustration.
Lucy saw blood flowing freely from a wound on his shoulder.
"Your hurt" she said touching his shoulder.
Natsu looked at her then his wound.
Lucy's eyes widened "It was when you pushed me out of the way" she said sadly.
"I'm glad I did" he grinned.
"Thanks" she mumbled.
He frowned then he looked at her hands "Why are your hands so bloody?" he asked grabbing her red hands.
"It's one of the victim's blood, I was helping her stabilize her wound but she died" she said with a pained face. She looked at her hands. It was red and sticky with dried blood. He frowned and tried to stand. He winced and sat back down.
Lucy noticed "What's wrong?"
"My leg" he replied touching his thigh.
"Was that from the helicopter too" Lucy said with guilt.
"No Lucy, it was from that man who got away" he reassured.
She nodded and looked down at the ground.
"Hey good job today" he smiled
She smiled back but it was a fake smile and he knew it. She sat next to him silently and hugged her knees.
He frowned and grabbed his phone.
"Erza where are you?" he asked when she picked up.
"In the Blue Pegasus University girl's dorm, where are you?" she asked.
"On the roof of the dorm, we need medical services" Natsu reported wincing again when he stood up.
"Got it" she said and hung up.
"Hey Lucy its okay" Natsu said softly.
She nodded again and put her head in her knees.
He sighed and waited for Erza to come.
The black helicopter landed outside a mansion in the woods. It was dark and there was no stars in the night sky, only the moon lit the earth.
Zancrow stepped outside and grunted when his leg and arm started throbbing.
"Stupid cops, shooting me" he growled. The pilot stopped the helicopter and stepped outside. He took off the helmet and revealed sandy blond hair and bright green eyes. "Your fault, teacher said not to go alone" he reminded.
"Shut up, I got the job done that girl is dead" Zancrow snapped as they walked towards the mansion.
The man rolled his eyes. They opened the doors and were greeted by a silver haired girl.
"Look whose back" she said sitting on the couch.
The mansion was very large; it had a total of 10 rooms with all white interior.
"Yeah good to see you too Angel" Zancrow growled sitting on the couch next to her.
"What happened to you?" Angel smirked as he held his arm.
"Cops" he growled.
Angel laughed then looked at other man.
She walked forward and he took her in a long kiss.
She kissed back. They took a step back and looked at each other, both out of breath.
"I missed you Lucas" she said looking at him.
"Get a room" Zancrow growled from the couch.
They laughed "Where is everyone?" Lucas asked Angel.
"Sleeping, they were all sent to bed. An exception of me of course" she smiled looking at Lucas.
"That's good, where is he anyway?" Lucas said looking around.
"On a job" Angel said sitting next to Zancrow.
"We saw Dragneel today" Zancrow informed Angel.
She smiled wickedly "Oh that must have been fun"
"Yeah it was until he shot me!" Zancrow snarled taking off his shirt to look at the wound.
"You should get that looked at" Lucas said sitting on the armchair next to them.
Zancrow rolled his eyes and started to dig the bullet out.
"Did they see you?" Angel asked staring at Zancrow with disgust.
"Of course not, I still need to keep my cover until teacher says so" Lucas snapped.
Angel rolled her eyes "Yeah whatever you say"
Zancrow grunted as the bullet came out onto his hand, blood was flowing freely out of the wound.
He got up and grabbed a towel and pressed it to his arm.
"I think its ironic how you're on the case that you caused" Zancrow smirked at Lucas.
"I know and it's annoying because Fullbuster is on it with me, for an idiot he's pretty sharp" Lucas mumbled irritably.
"Did they figure out who killed the security guards?" Angel asked looking at the man.
"Nope, I burned all the tapes and killed any witnesses" he answered playing with a knife that was on the table next to him.
They nodded.
"Thank god that blond chick can't shoot, she only grazed my leg" Zancrow said looking at his leg.
Angel nodded "Did teacher tell you who the next target is?"
"No, did he tell you?"
"Yeah who is it? Today's one was a bitch" Zancrow piped up from the bathroom.
"Erza Scarlet" she smirked.
Lucas smiled widely "This will be fun"
Hope you liked it, it's fine if you didn't though...anyways thanks for the feedback.
See you next Sunday!