Chapter Twenty-nine
I felt lightning sparking around me, emitting from every part of my body, pushing me to run faster. I was well ahead of everyone else, though I feel Laxus getting closer as he used his own lightning to move him faster to keep up with me. I could feel my magic draining fast, but I didn't care. All I did care about was getting to my friends as fast as I could. Within minutes I was at the large hole in what used to be the council library wall.
"LEVY!" I felt myself scream as soon as I could see inside the building. It was a disaster. Large stones from the wall knocked over bookcases, spilling their contents everywhere. Other stones had landed on tables, others destroying the chairs, smaller ones had gone farther not causing as much damage. Overthrown tables, bits of iron buried into whatever remained, evidence of other magic in various places. There was a fight after the explosion. "Gajeel! Jet! Droy!" I screamed their names more as I ran throughout the room searching for them.
My lungs were tired from the run up the steep hill, and the additional screaming wasn't helping. My body was gasping for air, and I knew that if I kept screaming for my friends like I was, I was going to destroy my voice.
Laxus came into the room after a minute, wincing everytime I screamed a name. I knew I was crying now, but I didn't care one bit, knowing he could feel the turmoil happening inside me. Laxus seemed to know the only places I couldn't bring myself to look for them, under the crashed shelves and destroyed bits of wall. I could feel his slight relief for everytime he didn't have to move a large object off of a person. I could also feel his agony of having to check every other spot though. I could feel the sadness of having to move a shelf or large rock off of a person, most were alive, just with broken bones or were unconscious. There were, however, a few that had sustained major injuries and had died during either the explosion or the fight that occurred soon after.
I was still freaking and searching for my best friend when Laxus grabbed my arms and pulled me to a stop.
"Lucy, dammit, they're not here!" Laxus yelled when I continued to try and look for them, his hands holding my arms were shaking me lightly trying to bring me to focus on him. "They're probably still fighting the people who did this, now calm the fuck down and get a hold of yourself." Laxus gripped my arms so tight that I knew they were going to bruise.
The Raijinshuu, exceeds, Wendy and Doranbolt arrived after another few minutes. I had calmed enough to look over the injuries of some of the Rune Knights.
"Now that we're all here, Wendy, these guys are hurt so you'll be staying here to heal them. Lucy, you'll be staying here with her. The rest of us let's go." Laxus spoke with absolute authority, but I was going to argue either way.
"I am NOT staying here while you guys go fight!"
"Yes, you are. You haven't gotten enough control over your magic to actually use it in battle."
"I have enough for close range. I'm going, and there's no stopping me. My best friend is out there fighting, probably for her life, because of me, again!"
"And what if you encounter a long range fighter, you might be able to reach thirty feet but that doesn't mean you can actually do any damage at that distance. Besides, who will be here with Wendy in case they come back?" Laxus had gotten closer, using his height to try and intimidate me.
"I'll stay." Doranbolt's calmer voice broke through our yelling.
Laxus looked at him with eyes that could kill. Doranbolt just shrugged.
"There's no use arguing with a girl who feels guilty. She would have gone either way. This way, Wendy doesn't end up alone. Besides, there's no time for this."
As Laxus sighed, I knew he had given up. "Charle, I know you're already staying here, but, Lily, please stay as well, just in case." Lily nodded quickly as I turned to face Wendy. "Wendy, there are four people unconscious, best I can figure is that they were hit on the head. The other eight have broken bones, but no serious injuries, other than one with broken ribs."
My gaze passed over Doranbolt. I knew he had counted the amount of Rune Knights in the room, and the numbers I said didn't add up.
With a heavy heart, I put my hand on his arm, feeling a small prickle of jealousy that clearly wasn't from me, "I'm sorry." His eyes were downcast, only lifting slightly in surprise when he felt Wendy grab his hand.
I turned to the opening in the wall, and began running with Laxus and the Raijinshuu running behind me.
We had only been running a few minutes when I heard a familiar voice scream.
"Let go of me!"
So, my Muses, I was asked to let everyone know that the LaLu week themes are out, though many of you probably already know. The dates are January 20-26 2016. I will also be putting them up on my profile.
LaLu Week 2016
Day 1 Aquarius
Day 2 Devilish
Day 3 Dream
Day 4 Sparks
Day 5 Manga
Day 6 Games
Day 7 Prey
Now onto the news, I want to do LaLu week, so I will be taking a small break from Linked, but I promise you a chapter of minimum 2 500 words, which isn't all that long, but longer than I usually write.
So, if there is an idea for those themes that you want to read, but don't want to write it, let me know. I don't really know what I want to do for too many of them, especially day 5, that one has me completely stumped.
I actually started on Aquarius but then I couldn't figure out how I wanted Laxus to first talk to Lucy, so I figured 'hey, I'll get this person to talk to her first' and then it turned into not a LaLu.
