Chapter 20: The Power of the Mind
3rd POV
Lucy now laid on the dirty, hard stone ground, her throat sore and burning from screaming after that man for so long; she had screamed for so long and so hard that it had gotten to the point where she had ultimately lost her voice. And now all the blonde beauty felt like doing was curling up and crying, especially when their encounter continued to replay inside her mind over and over again like a broken record. Her body shuddering as one too many emotions swarmed inside her head.
When he had stepped into the light he had, at first, appeared to be just some handsome man, one that looked normal enough that if Lucy had passed him on the street she would've just waved and smiled. His hair was brown, with the ends dyed a crimson red and golden eyes that matched the ends of his hair. However, the seconds words slipped through his pearly white's she knew something was wrong.
His voice and words were smooth, but slippery and vile at the same time. He reminded her much like a snake with the cunning and conceiving aura that surrounded his being. The way he said things could easily charm any person, women and men alike, and the purrs and coos could've fooled any children. But the celestial mage could see it, could hear it; the dark intent lacing his words, and shadows that had overcome his eyes. Whoever he was, he was no nice man, nor was he one that you wanted to be with.
And what made Lucy shudder even more with disgust, her stomach churning with every reminder, was how obvious it was that he wanted her. He wanted her. Oh how she wanted to scream and cry all at the same time once more. She could see from the way his eyes had narrowed onto her body and the possessive tone in his voice that he was beyond obsessed with her, something that made Lucy give off another shudder. She had just gotten happier recently, now that she was far away from the cruelty she had faced when she was at Fairy Tail, and now that she had gotten together with Gajeel who had been her rock throughout the tough time she had faced.
Now, all of it was ripped away by this unknown and crazed man. He took her away from her boyfriend/best friend, and took her away from her spirits who had always been by her side, who were the family she never had. He took her away from her friends that had been by her side when everyone else had turned against her.
Feeling herself start to choke up as their faces appeared inside her mind, the celestial mage crawled over to the corner of the cell, too numb to feel the pain emitting from her knees as they scraped against the rocky ground. She curled into herself as she pressed herself against the corner as much as possible, her fingers shaking as they wrapped around her bent knees, and it was only then that she felt tears slip from her eyes. Finally letting go, the blonde haired beauty broke out into a full melt down; big, fat tears rolled down her dirt covered cheeks and her shoulders wracked painfully as sobs erupted from her chest. Curling even farther into herself, she continued to weep, allowing herself to wallow in her misery just for a while until she would force herself to face the reality of the situation.
3rd POV
All Gajeel saw was red, and the mantra echoing inside his head was saying: I have to find Lucy. The iron dragon slayer could faintly hear Lily trying to calm him down as he flipped over the stands, chairs, and everything and anything he could get my hands on, but Gajeel simply ignored him, his inner dragon roaring with him as they let out their fury together. His mind became numb, and at that time, he wasn't even completely aware what was going on as he let his wrath unleash. No, she has to be here somewhere, Gajeel internally growled along with hie inner dragon as the dragon slayer ripped open the closet door, ignoring the fact that he had actually torn it from its hinges.
"GAJEEL!" Lily yelled, trying to get his attention. But once again Gajeel ignored him, desperately making his way to the bathroom. He slammed it open, but like in all the other places he checked, it was empty with no sign of a certain blonde haired celestial wizard.
"Someone took my fucking bunny!" He roared out loud, the items in the apartment shaking from the booming volume of his voice, pounding his fists against the wall along with it. He moved to slam his bloodied fists against the wall again, but before it could make its mark another hand stopped it, finally capturing the fury filled and wrathful dragon slayer's attention.
"Gajeel," Lily uttered again, now currently in his warrior form, his clawed paw gripping the slayers clenched fist. He stared seriously and with hard eyes into Gajeel's own red and crazed orbs, knowing that in the state the slayer was in could be extremely dangerous for anybody nearby.
"You need to calm down," the exceed continued, ignoring the way the pierced man simply narrowed his eyes furiously, and clenched his jaw together.
"Someone. Took. My. Fucking. Bunny." Gajeel growled again, though this time, Lily could hear the anger slowly leaking out of the black haired man's voice, and could see his eyes starting to turn more desperate and saddened. Lily then softened his grip lightly, but still kept a firm hold in case Gajeel erupted into another fit of rage.
"I know. Which is why you need to calm down; we won't be able to find her if you're in this state, do you understand?" Lily asked calmly, inwardly hoping that the man would just agree for he could already feel the extreme exhaustion of being in his larger form.
After a pregnant pause of Gajeel just glaring daggers at the wall, he nodded slowly. "… Yeah," the iron dragon slayer agreed, grinding his teeth together as he tried to hold both himself and his inner dragon back from going at it again when a disturbing image of his Bunnygirl wounded and covered in blood popped into his head.
"Okay," Lily whispered calmly once more, turning back to his usual state as he regarded the black haired man. "Let's find Lucy."
To be continued…
A/N: Sorry kind of short, because I already have the next chapter nearly written! Just need to add some tweaks and should be up in a couple hours!:3 I just felt like this was nice place to stop.
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