Why?

Lucy...

"Can I go?" I asked nervously. I knew that Fairy Tail would probably put in Erza again, and knowing her she'd definitely bring her A-Game.

"Sure." Sting said knowing full well how nervous I was. I slowly made my way down to the arena, not feeling as confident as I should have. I remembered Rouge lying half dead in hospital and decided that Fairy Tail needed to pay for what they did. No matter how much they hated me there was no way I was just gonna lay down and take it. I puffed up my chest and held my head high and with a glint of determination in my eyes I descended into the arena.

When I got there I was correct in my assumption that Erza would be there. She was standing there tall, proud and sneering in my direction. (A/N I know I had written that Erza wasn't under Lisanna's spell any more but for entertainment purposes she is still under and when Natsu came back last night she wasn't there.) Erza hadn't been able to accept the fact that Lisanna was a traitor and she adamantly stuck by her side. I actually thought that Erza had a bit of a crush on Lisanna. I know, shocker!

"What do you think you're doing here weakling!" She thundered. Sighing, I turned away from her and ignored it. Whereas the audience gasped.

What is this! Does Fairy Tail's Erza harbour resentment towards Sabertooth's Tempest/Lucy!? Well this is certainly a surprise? Weren't you two thicker than thieves when Tempest was part of Fairy Tail!?

"Can we just get on with the match?" I asked exasperated.

"What can't take the heat?" Erza retorted.

"What heat!?" I yelled, and instantly regretted. Advancing too quickly for anybody to react, she took out her sword and slashed me across the stomach. Leaving me shallow cut. Everybody in the arena gasped except for Sabertooth, and Makarov just shook his head.

Through my time of torture and training I had gained a high pain threshold. So all that escaped my mouth was a tiny hiss. After the initial strike there was almost no pain at all. I just sighed and summoned some purple flames using my magic, and began to cauterise my wound. It was pretty small so about 2 minute and a couple flinches later I was done. There was a sudden bout of pain as I tried to burn it closed and my hand jerked causing me to punch myself in the stomach. I coughed up blood and began to collapse. I tried to steady myself and clear my head, when I was pretty sure I would be fine for the event I signalled up to Sting that I wouldn't need to be replaced and once again requested for the event to start. Turning away from the newly restrained Erza Mato looked at me.

"Are you sure you want to do this?"

"Yes I'm sure. Can we please just get this thing started?"

Yea. Um. Sure. You can go first because she'll get free soon.

"Finally. Alright so are there any changes this year?"

"Yesiree! This year we have One-Thousand monsters standing by so if we get too many requests for demons we won't have to resort to the MPF. We will also have it so that everyone gets an even mix of monster classes rather than random selection.

I knew that I wouldn't be able to take on all one thousand demons and given Erza's narrowed eyes she wouldn't be able to either. I knew that I could easily take on most people in Fairy Tail but Erza was a bit of an unknown. When she fights with blind rage she is easy to beat yet if she actually sees me as a legitimate enemy it might be a bit harder. Thinking hard I decided that I would take on 500 demons and if Erza took the other 500 it would turn to the MPF or some other side game.

"Okay alright, I'll take on 500." I stated calmly

"Ha!" She snorted. "The weakling thinks she can beat 500 you probably couldn't even take on one!" I didn't respond to her taunts and insults. They just reminded me of days - gone - by. I shuddered.

"Alright, so Tempest Dawn is first. Please make your way into the castle."

Taking note of the time as I walked into the castle I felt a strange evil presence. Shrugging it off I proceeded to REQUIP into my Angels Valkyrie Lunari Armour. And stated my challenge. Taking a deep breath and leaping onto a pedestal I began my assault. I started with the D-Class and worked my way through. Each swing of my sword and blast of energy released some the pent up anger I had within myself. I cleaved through enemies, hordes at a time screaming out my aggression. I let go completely and lost myself to the kill. I found myself laughing as I became splattered in monster blood and entrails running and attacking only what got in my way. Dodge, swing, parry, and block were the patterns of the fight, no slaughter. I cackled mercilessly, paying no attention to any injuries.

Before long I had decimated every enemy there. And was facing down the S-Class monster. Suddenly I fell to the ground. My knees had given out my every muscle screamed in pain. I knew that if I didn't get up soon they would deem me unable to fight. I tried to get up but my legs wouldn't respond. I thought about Sting, Selene, Rufus and Orga sitting back there in stands worrying about me. I felt tears leak from my eyes down my face and pool around collarbone. I was weak, useless, crappy, shitty, retarded, worthless and everything else people had said about me. I realised it was all true... it... it... was. It yhy Fairy Tail hadn't fought Lisanna's spell, it was why Rouge had left me, it was why my father hated me, and why my mother died. I was the cause of all of it and I was sure.

I decided that no matter what I did I would always be this... disgusting creature... the scummy thing that should have never graced the face of the earth. I also decided that if I couldn't be good enough I could at least convince others that I was. I summoned my last bit of magic power and re - equipped into my Black Nightingale armour and cut my palm with the sword. I dashed towards the creature and cut it with the bloody part of the blade. I felt magic saturate my body and literally pull the wounds off of my body. The monster roared in pain, as my multitude of cuts and scrapes were grafted onto his arms and legs. That alone was not enough to kill it. I summoned my Hell Raiser Armour and plunged the sword into the ground, summoning about 5 demons to finish off the monster.

And they did. I asked them to help me out of the castle but leave when they got to the door. I can't let them see me with help.

By the time I had gotten there I had enough energy to drag myself to my feet and push open the huge doors to the arena and stagger over to Mato.

"Get Chelia" was all I could say before I blacked out.

"Ne. Chelia-chan, can you just do the basics? I'll duck into the hospital later on."

"Okay. Tempest-San, Erza-San was second and she defeated the other 500 demons. They said that the MPF would have to be used again. All the other contestants are competing for places 3rd to 8th. You and Erza will go last on the MPF because you're both being patched up."

"Okay.." I said slowly taking in all the information. "Chelia-Chan can you restore some of my magic power?"

"Yeah. But it takes a lot of my own magic power."

"I'm not going to force you to or anything but there aren't any more events on today and your guild has already done their battle so it wouldn't really be detrimental at all."

"Oh. I'll do it. Just remember it'll be a weird sensation at first but then it'll get better, how much power do you want?"

"Oh I'll take about 50,000 Edeas if you don't mind. Thankyou so much for doing this Chelia-Chan."

"It's all right Tempest-San."

"And drop the San we're friends aren't we?"

"Yes. Alright, okay. Tempest-S. No... Um... Tempest." she said smiling. I smiled back. "Um, Tempest... can I ask what you need all that magic power for?"

"Well I doing the MPF aren't I?"

"Oh. Okay are you ready?"

"Ready as I'll ever be!"

Oh.