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Chapter Three

Lucy stared at her guild master; her dad wanted her home? Like hell that's happening. She started laughing, uncontrollably. Bending at the waist and letting some hair fall into her mouth, causing her to spit it out. "You can't be serious," she got out eventually after calming down.

Jose turned to Gajeel, dismissing him for now. They had the girl and he was gonna squeeze as much money from her dad as he can. "You bet sweet pea, he's offering a reward for your return and now that we have you, I'm getting more money from him," he explained to the blonde, watching her shift on the hard gravel floor.

A scoff rumbled through her lips, "He doesn't care that much to give you more money for me," getting to her feet now, she narrowed her eyes at him, "Besides, I thought I was part of this guild? Don't we have each other's backs?"

Now, a smirk was painted on his face, letting a scoff sound through it, "Yeah, right. You think I really care about any of these imbeciles? They do everything for me, so I don't have to lift a finger," crossing his arms and walking in a circle around her. Lucy saw a large opening behind him as he moved, she could only see the sky and some trees in the distance.

"Did you know this when you accepted me in this guild?" rubbing her wrists against the rope, causing it to sting her skin.

"No, it was just convenient that you were here, then I had to get back at Fairy Tail once and for all. So, I blamed them for having you and destroyed three of their members," he gloated with his eyes closed and smiling; he was proud of what he did those people.

Don't get her wrong, she didn't care about those damn fairies but blaming it on her was not sitting well with her. She took credit for all she's done wrong and this was bullshit. As his eyes were closed, she swung her leg back just to strike him in the jewels.

Jose bent over with a loud groan and covering himself when Lucy swung her leg again, roundhouse kicking him in the head. He fell to the ground on his side as she ran to the open window and looked down to see a long ass fall. It looked about 13 stories tall.

Turning back around to see Jose groaning and trying to stand back up, Lucy ran to the opposite doorway she came out of. "Hey! Get back here you little bitch!"

"You're gonna have to use a better insult than that," She mocked, still trying to break the rope around her wrists but they were too tight and too wrapped around her.

Jose extended his arm towards her, having a shadow like creature fly at her. The blonde dodged to the left but hit the edge of the doorway, having the shadow graze you shoulder. She started to feel weak and her magic was drained from her slightly. "Wha-," slipping from the doorway but her foot caught herself before she fell.

"That's that power of shade. It takes your magic from you," he explained, still on the ground, still feeling the affects to his balls. He finally got to his feet, although awkwardly, he was standing before the stellar mage who held a scowl to him.

Lucy had one option to get out of this alive, so she charged him, hitting him in the stomach with her head and shoulder. Lucy launched him out the open window, sending him over the edge and down all 13 stories. Her foot slid over a little, letting some building chunks flying after her guild master.

She let out a deep breath when she almost fell over with him, her mocha eyes watched him hit the ground, smacking the back of his head against the hard ground and his eyes stared up at her blankly.

Taking a minute to assess what she's done; she didn't have any other choice right? That was the only thing she could do, right? At this point, she didn't know.

She ran, down all the flights of stairs to the end of the building, almost tripping over her own two feet. Breathing heavily, she looked both ways and just started to run in whatever way she needed to be.

Her hands still tied behind her back, Lucy just kept running; she wouldn't say this to anyone, but she felt very scared at the moment. Her father actually scared her a lot, that's the reason she left and now he wants her back? What could be possibly want? The blonde didn't even notice that she had started crying until she felt a tear reach her mouth.

"Gods, I need to get myself together," commenting to herself as she tried to breath through her nose and calm down before she stepped into town. She wiped her face on her shoulder, getting it wet. She stopped when she got to the edge of town, really feeling the effects of the shade magic Jose threw at her.

Lucy started to sway on her feet, her vision was blurred, and she wanted to blink rapidly to make the scene go away, but it seemed like her brain fritzed out and she fell to the concrete ground below her, landing on her shoulder in the process

[***]

He walked along the path to the Fairy Tail guild, having a walk to clear his mind of Levy, Jet and Droy hung up like that. He didn't think he would ever get that image out of his mind. Feeling the coldness of his body made him comfortable.

The town was quiet, the major had evacuated the town because of Phantom Lord's attack and Fairy Tail's counterattack. He sighed, "Guess I should be getting back now," telling himself and shoving his hands in his pockets, already shirtless for about 20 minutes now.

His midnight eyes looked to the left of him, he saw a girl laying on her side with her hands tied behind her back with a bleeding shoulder; her skin was pale and her blonde hair was thrown over her face in a hazardous way, "Shit," Gray whispered making his way over to her.

The ice mage fell to his knees, moving her hair out of her face then straight to her neck trying to see if she was still alive. To his relief she was still breathing but it was shallow. Gray wrapped his arm under her knees and the other under her shoulder blades to lift her against his chest.

Running the rest of the way back to Fairy Tail, he didn't know this girl and had no idea why she was tied up or even out here to begin with. Busting through the door with his shoulder, "Help!" he yelled in the destroyed guild hall.

Members sat up in attention; Mira stopped cleaning the bar, Erza put down her pen she was using to map areas out, Natsu turned to look to find Lucy in his arms, unconscious and bleeding.

"Lucy?" He whispered; Gray looked at him with a raised eyebrow at him in question.

"Do you know her?" Laying her on the bed after cutting the rope around her wrists. His fingers rubbed against the raw skin, red and puffy from being pulled and rubbed for hours. Then turning it over he found the purple Phantom Lord guild mark on the inside of her wrist. "She's Phantom Lord," he announced.

Everyone stopped, Mira was in the middle of getting wraps to assess her wounds but stopped. Erza then turned to Natsu, "Didn't you say Lucy? Is she the Lucy they want?" the red-haired mage asked with a glare at the pink-haired dragon slayer.

He averted his eyes at the question, rubbing his arm in discomfort. "Answer it Natsu!" She yelled pulling out a sword, aiming to towards his throat. Natsu swallowed thickly, before a big gasp was heard behind them.

All staring at Lucy as she sat up with her eye wide open and sweat dripping down her forehead, her mocha eyes drifted to each individual in the room. Panic started to flood, and she scooted herself back in the bed until her shoulder flared up and it hung loosely at her side, "What the shit?" holding her shoulder.

"I think your shoulder is dislocated," Gray gently told her. Lucy's eyes flicked to him but then stared back at Natsu, since he was the only one she knew. "We can ask her questions when we put her shoulder back," Gray glared at Erza who would be the one to argue.

She crossed her arms as Natsu made his way over to her, "Luce, you know we have to pop it back in," grabbing her arm while his other gently laid on her shoulder.

She shook her head rapidly, trying to pull away from him, "You get the hell away from me," bumping straight into Gray on the other side of her. The ice mage held her down as Natsu shoved her shoulder back into place.

A scream ripped through her lungs, she clenched her teeth after they let go of her and stepped away. Erza stepped to the end of the bed in front of her, "What are you doing here?"

Her chocolate eyes narrowed at her, "If I knew that, I wouldn't be here. The last thing I remember is running," she didn't want to tell them she shoved her guild master off the top of a building and was actually hoping he was dead. Her skin shivered at that thought.

"What were you running from?"

Lucy moved off the bed and moved towards the door, but Gray shut it with his foot before she could get to it. The stellar mage huffed, turning back to the red-haired interrogator and the annoying pink-haired pest staring at her.

"I was running from my guild master,"

"Why?" Natsu asked, actually concerned. He knew she was a criminal, but they had finished a job together and she didn't seem like an enemy to them.

Lucy opened her mouth to answer when the ground shook, then another followed when another fairy ran into the room telling them that a giant building was in the ocean right behind the guild hall, coming for them. The four of them ran outside just to see the Phantom Lord guild hall on legs on it's way to the guild.

They all stared at the building until a gruff voice was heard over the vast area where every member of Fairy Tail and Lucy, "You blonde bitch, we came to get you! Show your dumb blonde face," Gajeel yelled which only made them more confused as to what was happening.

The blonde he spoke of, cringed under her own quilt, eating at her heart but she was stepping forward when Natsu pushed her back against a tree. She sent him a glare and tried pushing him back so she can just go.

It can't be that bad, it's only Gajeel and he doesn't seem that bad.

Natsu caged her against the tree with both hands on either side of her face, narrowing his eyes at her, "Stay here. If you go with him, he could hurt you further," Natsu reasoned with her. Her eyebrows frowned at him, why did he give any shits about her when the feeling was not mutual whatsoever.

"Natsu let me just go. This is really stupid," she whispered as more Fairy Tail members looked at them. Gray was already very wary of her while Erza was staring down the canon that was threatening her family, "Stop worrying about me, I'll save your fucking guild if you just let me go," arguing with the pink haired slayer.

Before he could counter her Gajeel yelled again, "Well, if not, have fun with this Jupiter canon," a spinning sound companying with a powering up sound with a bright blue glow coming out of the canon's mouth.

Erza turned back to her guild mates, throwing her arm back, "Get back guys!" Lucy watched as she equipped into a very metal looking armor with giant halves of a shield. She thought she heard her yell, 'Adamantine Armor.'

She slammed the halves together to make a giant shield around them and the guild hall. It fired off and it crashed right into her shield making it crumble under the pressure and Erza went flying back after the canon's blast faded out. Gray and Natsu ran over to her yelling her name to make sure she was okay. Lucy took this opportunity to run towards the water just to get the shit over with.

Stopping when her shins hit the water, she opened her arms open and shouted, "Here I am you ugly, metal asshole!"

The building shifted and one of the legs fell right before the blonde, causing her to fall back into the water making her soaking wet.

"Lucy! Stop! What are you doing?" Natsu yelled running to her when she got to her feet again. The blonde growled at him with a glare pointed to Natsu.

"Just leave me alone, it's not like you guys care anyway," turning back to the giant leg and running up to her doom. She didn't understand why these fairies even care about her to begin with. Lucy only knew Natsu, not any of the rest so why did they care at all?

Lucy was almost out of breath once she got all the way to the top, but she crawled through the doorway to get inside.

Natsu threw up his hands and ran up the leg after her without noticing Elfman and Gray running after him. he couldn't figure out why he wanted to help her, but he didn't want her to get even more hurt than she already was. Natsu had no idea what she was thinking, just running up like that when all of Fairy Tail had her back.

Well, he thought so. He had her back since she had his, a while ago, on that mission. She also seemed lost to him, like she had no idea what she was doing with anything. Arriving in the building Natsu found a man standing by one giant crystal balls with his arms crossed.

"You're in my way!" Natsu yelled, spewing fire from his mouth and his hands lit up in a fighting stance.

The man lifted his hand in question, "I'm just doing my job, my name is Totomaru and I control fire!" he exclaimed lifting his chin in mock at Natsu. The fairy tail dragon slayer scoffed at him with his fists ready.

"Not my fire!" after he stated that his own fist punching him in the face. "What the-" he questioned again when his other fist punched him again, "Stop it!"

Watching Gray and Elfman run past him, asking him if was alright fighting this guy. When Natsu screamed that he was fine and wanted them to get Lucy, Gray was confused.

Why did Natsu care about this blonde girl? Also, why was the Phantom Lord master trying to blame Fairy Tail when they already had the blonde with them? He had so many questions when he was stopped by a tall blue haired woman holding a pink umbrella and long heavy-looking dress.

"Juvia has been sent to stop you," Gray stopped, stuffing his hands in his pockets when she spoke again, "Juvia does not want to fight but she has to, for her guild," holding a fist to her chest and closed her eyes.

Gray raised an eyebrow at the girl, who the hell was she talking about? Was she Juvia? "Look, that seems nice and all, but I've got shit to do," he told her while taking off his shirt unconsciously.

Juvia then blushed at his audacity of his actions, she then ready's her attack; thrusting her arm back and throwing water towards him yelling, 'Water slicer'. Gray veered his body away from the slicers, none hitting him at all.

"Alright, you asked for it," turning to his right, his left fist in his right palm as cold air wafted in around them both.

[***]

Lucy found herself in front of Gajeel and a few other members she never learned the names of. She stood with her hands clench tight while her brown eyes narrowed at the iron dragon slayer in an attempt to look intimidating but obviously that wasn't working.

"Well, there's the little princess. Wanna tell me what happened with Jose?" Gajeel gruffly asked with his arms crossed. The other two Phantom Lord members looking confused, only he knew, and he wanted answers.

"That was an accident," Lucy stated crossing her own arms, is this all he wanted?

He nodded, looking away from her then swung his arm at her, his magic causing it to change into a chainsaw that cut down into her already damaged shoulder. Lucy screamed out but clenched her teeth together, "Yeah right! That's a lie and you know it!"

Blood seeped down to her shirt, dirtying the material, she fell to her knees glaring at the unruly man before her.

"Gajeel! We were told just to capture her not torture her," the girl commented raising her hand, "Jose told us…"

"Jose's dead!" Gajeel yelled at them, causing them to gasp. His arm extended out towards the blonde, bleeding on her knees, "And it was her fault!" all their eyes narrowed towards her in anger and confusion.

Her heart skipped a beat at their quick movements in attacking her. it was three against one and she was definitely losing. However, she wasn't going to give them the satisfaction of them being right. She moved to her feet again, albeit very slowly and hazard but she glared them right back.

"You weren't even there. He called you guys idiots and he could walk over all of you!" Lucy called right before Gajeel used his iron dragon fist on her gut, causing the blonde to double over and cough excessively with her long hair covering her face.

"Shut up!" smashing his fist to the side of her face, Lucy hit the ground with a grunt, "You don't know what you're talking about!"

Lucy flipped her hair to look straight at him, "Oh yeah? Well he was gonna keep me from my dad to get more money. Just because I was part of the guild didn't mean anything to him, he only thought of himself. I had no choice!" Lucy screamed, leaning up on her hands now, letting the blood run down her mouth.

Gajeel readied his fist when Natsu kicked down the door, knocking the two Phantom Lord members down with it. "Luce! Where are you?" He screamed hands already lit up bright.

His jade eyes followed to Gajeel bent over with a fist held high and Lucy laying on her side bleeding and bruised with her eyes trained on Gajeel. "Natsu?" Lucy asked.

The fire dragon slayer growled, running to the other slayer with a cocked fist. Lucy yelled for them to stop fighting. She didn't know why Natsu was even here in the first place. She moved in a slow motion as she was trying stop the two of them. They kept smashing and kicking each other as Lucy got to her feet again.

"Guys!" Lucy shouted, both knocking over a wall connecting to the other room next to them. The building started to rumble, and Lucy looked up to the ceiling to find chunks falling from the sky when Natsu roared again causing Lucy to hit the floor and the wall behind her fell.

The blonde decided on her own that this was over and ran frantically towards the pink-haired asshole that wouldn't leave her alone and grabbed his arm before he could strike Gajeel again. She said nothing when she pulled him along to the exit.

"Luce, what are you doing?" generally confused. Shaking his arm to get her off, she held on tight and dragged his ass out while the building was falling apart.

"Natsu we really need to get out before the building collapses," Lucy told him, pulling him further. Hearing the loud footsteps of Gajeel following after them, Natsu and Lucy ran faster.

[***]

The three of them arrived in the backyard of Fairy Tail when the building fully fell into the ocean. Lucy looked around to see people running to them exclaiming yelling for Natsu. Both slayers fell onto their backs, fully exhausted about the whole fight.

To her left she saw Gray holding up a passed out Juvia near a bench. Then all the Fairy Tail members ran towards Natsu, making sure he was okay and then more members of Phantom Lord ran towards Gajeel in a similar fashion.

Lucy was breathing heavily as she sat back on the hot summer sand. She sat down to think, she had to have a talk with her father and get this dumb guild mark off of her. then she had to hide.

Obviously, there was no use in her staying around people, they would just get more hurt with her around. Getting to her feet again she walked off, not without feeling a pull on her celestial magic. It was small but it was there. Her eyes traveled to a red head boy who was standing with the Fairies. His green jacket and blue sunglasses weren't fooling her, she knew who he was right from the get go.

The only spirit that has been missing for three years, no one would answer her questions about Leo the Lion, but she will find out, after she gets herself healed up and figure out what she was gonna do next.

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