Hey everyone! So… College got pushed up a couple days so it may be a little bit before another chapter. I'll work on it as much as I can for you guys but I'm about to have real life hit me like a freight train so yeah. Anyways, enough about me, here is a new chapter for everyone.
A Storm of Fairies
Chapter 7: Lucy
Lucy looked out onto the grey landscape that surrounded her. Everything was cold, covered in snow and ice. Like a constant blizzard was taking place over the land. She recognized the area, Kings Landing. But, she was on the run, getting as far away from that place as possible. Wasn't she? Then how come she was seeing the city, and why was it covered in mountains of ice?
Several figures sauntered about the walls and grounds in the city. Their walk was strange, almost like a jerking limp. Lucy peered closer and saw that the figures looked human from a distance but were certainly not human. They looked like ghosts, their skin held no life in it and seemed to be sagging on lifeless bones and muscles.
"What is this?" muttered Lucy.
The scenery faded away and a new location appeared in her vision. A city in the sand with a massive pyramid dominating its skyline. Her vision drew closer to the pyramid. In it she saw a young woman with white hair, very similar in color to Mirajane's. At her feet were three small lizards with… wings!
"Dragons! But how!?"
Then she felt her heart stop in her chest. She saw a new figure enter the scene. He was coming in from the background. He wore billowy white pants that ended around his shins and only a black coat with gold trimmings on his lean torso. A massive toothy grin was on his face and his head was covered in spiky pink hair. Lucy recognized him instantly. Her heart leapt, Natsu was here.
"NATSU!" Cried out Lucy to him as he walked away from her sight and towards the woman. He gently grabbed the woman from behind and rested his chin on her shoulders. "Natsu?" The woman looked up to him with a serene smile. Then the scene faded once again. "Natsu!" She cried out as the scene changed to a different one.
The skies were black as night. In front of her stood a massive wall made of ice. The snowpiles beside it were huge. Lucy felt her feet crunch in the snow as she made her way among a desolate castle. Then she saw it and her stomach flipped. Bodies, a mountain of bodies in the courtyard with the blood staining the snow around it. She didn't know what to think of this. But then she felt as if she was flying over it all. The wall shrank beneath her as she rose and soared past it. She flew over a huge forest with a dense canopy and then past massive snow encrusted mountains until finally she saw a frozen lake with a single tree standing beside it. She saw a young boy with a mop of black hair and two companions in green clothing with him. The boy was on the back of a giant of a man who was more than a little overweight. Then she saw it. The crow, it's three beady eyes seemed to gaze into her very soul.
"You have seen this. You will see more. I will give you sight, to defeat the darkness." said a calm voice in her head.
Fires raged about the lake and tree. Three silhouettes appeared. She couldn't make out the finer details of them. The shadows were too deep. Two were males. She could tell by their frames. On had dark hair that peacocked a little in the back and drooped over his forehead. His eyes were calm but that was the only feature of his face she could see. Who was this man? She did not know. The second was woman with long flowing red hair. Red hair!
"Melisandre." Lucy growled. Then the last appeared.
This one was different. Lucy couldn't tell if it was human or not. It seemed to shift between a massive beast the size of the guild hall back home and a muscular human. When in human form it had long wild hair that seemed to be white in color. But what stood out were the markings, blue markings. Almost like tattoos on it's body. The power emanating from the creature was terrifying.
"You will see." said the voice again. Then the a screeching pierced her head. The third figure turned to her. The glare of death was upon her.
"Who is looking upon me?" it growled, "I can sense you."
The deep rumbling voice set Lucy on edge. She wanted to curl into a ball and hide from it. But there was nowhere to go. She felt like she couldn't run or hide. She was stuck in place. Her feet firmly planted on the icy lake.
"There you are." it chuckled.
A deafening roar echoed over the land. Lucy covered her ears and screamed in fear. Then she felt the ice crack beneath her feet and she fell into frozen water.
"What is this!?" she screamed in the water as it entered her lungs and began to choke her. "STOP!?"
"LUCY!" said a voice. "LUCY!"
Her vision went out and she felt herself breathing rapidly and heavily. She felt sweat on her body.
"Lucy!" said a voice to her right that she recognized.
"Is that you Loke?"
"Yes, it's me." he said with more than a little concern in his voice. "Are you ok? You were screaming like a madman in your sleep."
Lucy rubbed her forehead and wiped sweat from her forearm onto the bandages that still covered her ruined eyes. She pinched herself to make sure that she was actually awake and winced when she felt the pain. She turned her head to where she thought Loke was.
"I'm ok Loke." she said, "It was just a nightmare."
Even though Lucy was blind she knew the look that the Celestial leader was giving her. Loke was a flirtatious goofball most of the time and always seemed to want to be Lucy's man. But when it came time to be serious the Lion of the stars was always ready. He always put her safety and wellbeing first and foremost in his mind. She could tell that he wanted to inquire more into these nightmares. But Lucy didn't want him too. That is all they were. Nightmares, nothing more.
But if that was true. Then how did I see Natsu. In a place that was obviously not Fiore.
"Lucy? You sure you are ok?" Loke asked again.
Lucy nodded her head as she leaned against the tree trunk. "I'll be fine Loke don't worry." She groaned as she slowly stood up. Sleeping against trees was really bad for the back. She curled back a little and felt several vertebrae crack.
Ooooh, that's better.
"How long have you been in this world Loke? Couple hours?" she asked.
"I haven't left since I got here."
"WHAT! Loke! You know that's not good for you! This world has less magic in it. Who knows how much damage that can do to you!?" she exclaimed.
"I'm fine." he said with a slight twinge of pain in his voice.
Lucy reached over with her hands and felt the celestial spirit's face. It was clammy.
"No you are not."
"I can't just leave you like this Lucy!"
"And I can't just let you recklessly stay without getting rest." she said back. "Don't worry. I'll summon Capricorn and maybe Horologium. You need to get some rest."
"But Luce." complained Loke.
Lucy sighed. Sometimes her spirits could be real headaches. "If I gave you a job to do would that get you to go rest afterwards."
A small silence. "Sure."
Lucy smiled at him, "Good. Quick question. Can you travel back to Earthland?"
"I don't see why not."
"Good, go to the guild and tell master Makarov that I'm ok. And that as far as I know, Natsu is ok as well."
"How do you know Natsu is ok?" he questioned.
Lucy leaned back against the tree recounting the dream, or vision that she just had. Who was that woman he was with? "Just a feeling." she replied.
A long silence. "Oh sorry. I nodded but I forgot-"
"It's ok Loke." she laughed a little.
"What she I tell him about Wendy?"
Lucy felt a pit form in her stomach. She knew the spell worked to bring her back. But did she stay alive was the question. Did her wounds take her yet again or is she back in King's Landing safe and sound.
"Tell him the truth Loke. That's all we can do." Loke was about to depart when Lucy called to him, "Oh, and tell Virgo to bring me some clothes!" she ripped off the red cloak around her. "I plan on burning this piece of trash."
"HOT!" yelled Loke as he stared at Lucy.
"What?" asked Lucy completely confused.
"Oh um, Luce, you also just tore off your um… ahem… dress."
"EEEEEEEP! STOP LOOKING AND GO YOU PERVERT!"
"Sorry!" a sudden burst of magic and Loke's magical presence disappeared.
"Princess." said a voice that caused Lucy to jump in shock.
"You need to stop sneaking up on me like that Virgo!" she exclaimed. "I can't exactly see you coming anymore."
"I'm sorry Princess, Shall you punish me?" She got on her hands and knees.
"NO!" Lucy yelled. She took a long sigh. Why are my spirits so crazy? "Did you bring clothes?"
"Indeed princess. Here you are." Lucy felt Virgo begin to fit her into a new outfit she brought from the celestial spirit world. It was a simple blue long sleeved shirt with yellow trimmings and a white skirt with blue and yellow trimmings as well. Then she felt Virgo begin to remove the bandages. Lucy moved quickly and grabbed Virgo's wrists.
"Princess? Is everything ok?"
Lucy shook her head.
"Don't worry princess. I brought a new cloth for you to put over the injuries."
"Just-" Lucy took a shaky breath, "Just let me get them off myself." Lucy grabbed the knot that held the bandages around her eyes and slowly untied them. She heard Virgo gasp in shock. The eyes were blackened and burnt. The lids sealed shut from the amount of heat Melisandre poured into her attack. But they were no longer painful. Whatever ointment Ser Davos used worked to perfection. She'd have to find more.
"That bad huh?" she joked to Virgo.
"Princess…" she felt Virgo's hands place an incredibly soft piece of white cloth over her eyes. She tightly tied the cloth behind her head then placed and hooded cloak over her shoulders.
"Thank you Virgo. You can go now."
"Of course." Another burst of magic and Virgo disappeared. Lucy now sat alone beside the tree.
"What to do." she muttered to herself. The dream she had. It was really bugging her. What did it all mean. Lucy fumbled to her waist and gently gripped her keys. She felt the symbols along the top until she came to one shaped like a goat.
"Open Gate of the Goat: Capricorn!" A doorbell was heard and a surge of magic went through Lucy's body.
"You called Miss Lu...cy." said a gentlemanly voice. "What happened Miss Lucy?"
"Long story Capricorn." she turned to the voice and carefully walked towards it. She then bumped into the goat dressed in a butler's uniform. "Oh there you are." she said sheepishly.
"Lucy, are your eyes injured?"
"You could say that I guess." She replied glumly. "There is nothing you can really do though."
The goat was silent for a second. "Who did this?" he growled.
"That's what I wanted to talk to you about. Ever since this," she pointed at her eyes, "Happened, I've been getting strange dreams. Visions almost. In all of them the person who did this to me is in them. But there are two others as well. I don't know who they are or what the dream means."
"Visions you say." replied the humanoid goat as she heard him sit down next to her. Her others senses were starting to take over for her lack of sight, good. "Tell me what happens in these."
Lucy leaned against her tree once again, "It varies, but the context is almost always the same. Death and destruction. Frozen lands surrounded in fire. And a three eyed crow talking to me."
"Are you sure you didn't just eat something bad Miss Lucy?" asked the goat.
"Positive you stupid goat!" she roared back. "Anyways… This last one was very different though. It showed me… it showed me Natsu and where he was. Like it was super important to this three eyed crow. Then it showed me a frozen city and a castle next to an ice wall. The wall was standing but the defenders were all dead. Then I saw a frozen lake and tree beyond the wall with three figures standing near it instead of one." she described the three figures to Capricorn. He didn't know the first with the peacocked hair and the second had to be explained to the goat who went into a rage fueled tirade on Melisandre. After the goat calmed down, she described the third. Eerie silence followed the third description.
"Acnologia." she heard Capricorn mutter. Lucy had heard that name before. It was only supposed to be legends though. The Dragon of the Apocalypse. He had seen her. But how!? Lucy felt a great fear build in her. What was she to do? She thought back to the Ice wall. The three eyed crow was near there. She could feel it in her gut.
"I'm going to that Ice wall. If I find nothing there to help explain all of this then I will search for Natsu." she said with determination. The fear of the mighty Acnologia must be put aside for now. She had to figure out what this three eyed crow wanted from her.
"Then that is what you must do. You determine your own path Miss Lucy. I can only give you advice." said Capricorn. "However I just urge caution as you embark on this perilous journey."
Lucy stood resolutely. "Thanks Capricorn. Now time to start walking." THUMP! She walked right into the tree. "Owwwwww…." groaned Lucy.
"Would you like a guide?"
"Sure." she groaned once again. "And one more thing… any idea where a massive wall of ice would be?"
Alright! Interesting chapter. The black dragon of the apocalypse makes his first appearance in this story and it is a menacing one. Now, to address why Lucy did not recognize male number one. Think of this story as a replacement for the Tenrou Island Arc. This is the reason for the seven year timeskip then not the island getting blown up to kingdom come. That gives you guys a timeline for all of these events as well. I thought it'd be best to place it there because it allows for time after Edolas for the crew to know about interdimensional travel while at the same time not destroying canon fairy tail's storyline took much. Anyways, that's my two cents. I hope you guys enjoyed, please rate, review and as always, have a nice day!
