Trickery chapter 2
Saddened
Don't worry! Lucy won't die!
Please forgive mistakes, its cold here and my fingers won't listen.
Lucy's POV
Once the barriers were in place I saw dust forming in front of me and it turned into me! I saw the other me smirk and she showed me something. I gasped, she had my keys! Suddenly the barrier mage was in front of me confirming our suspicion that he possessed a type of teleportation magic. I felt like there was a tingling in my skin. Not on my skin, in it. It felt like something was crawling inside my skin. Suddenly it hurt, the pain was so unbearable that I couldn't help but scream. Is this a part of the barrier magic? I briefly saw the other Lucy's eyes glow red and then she started screaming. She had the exact same voice. The barrier mage then turned to me.
"I'll see you later" he told me. I was then surrounded by grey smog and everything went black.
Natsu's POV
I was too late. I was too weak. I couldn't protect her. She trusted me and I failed her. I'm so pathetic, no one blames me but they should. It was entirely my fault.
I carried her body back, tears streaming down my face. When we got to the guild I handed her to Gray and left. I just couldn't handle Levy's howling, Erza's silent sobbing or Wendy's crying. I wish that they'd blame me. I promised her that I'd protect her. I don't deserve to be on a team. I'll go solo from now on.
We held a funeral for her; she was buried near to where Lisanna's empty grave was. Though this time, I wouldn't get my friend back. We just got lucky last time.
Lucy's POV
I woke up to find myself in a cave, I think; i was chained to the wall by my wrists.
"I see you're awake now, you're probably thinking that your pathetic friends will come and save you. But you're wrong. They don't care" the clone mage told me. I wanted to protest but my throat was aching and I couldn't find the energy to protest.
"This will be fun" the memory manipulation mage said. The tone of his voice scared me to death and I wished that I could just shrink and disappear.
~XXX 5 months later XXX~
It's been months. I lost track of counting ages ago. Why haven't they come to help me? Is what he said true? Did they not care? No Lucy, don't you dare say that! There must be a perfectly good reason as to why they have not found me. They're probably looking at this very moment.
Laxus' POV
It's been about 5 months since Blondie's death, many of my guild mates have dedicated their time to finding her killer. Levy is wearing herself out trying to identify the barrier magic and find a way to dispel it as well as the clone magic. Erza doesn't eat much of anything, Gray doesn't run away from Juvia or strip and everyone is just really depressed.
"Laxus, I have a mission for you and your team" I heard gramps tell me. Me and my team got up and went to his office that was crowded with papers that he'll probably ask me to do when we get back. I wonder what the missions about.
"Laxus, the mages that killed Lucy have been spotted. Now I know there have been other sightings and they have been nothing but clones, but I am hoping this time we will get lucky. Now I want you guys to be careful and remember what magic they use. If you find a hideout you are to explore it and report back immediately" gramps told us. I nodded my head. I hope this isn't another bloody wild goose chase. There have been about 6 sightings of these bastards but every time they were clones and it's getting bloody annoying.
We headed out immediately. They were spotted in Dempt town, which is surprisingly close to Teed where the incident happened. They probably knew that we wouldn't check so close to the town where it happened. After a relatively short train ride we headed to the library to see a map of the nearby mountains and forest to look for a potential hiding spot that mages would use. We found 3 in total so we headed out and went to search.
The first was in a forest east of the town. I don't think that they'd be here. It looks to open.
"Laxus, this wouldn't be a good hiding place for anyone" Freed said. I nodded my head.
"I know but we can't take any chances" I told him. After about 10 minutes of searching we came up with nothing. So we moved on to the next spot.
The second spot was in the mountains. It was dark and damp. It seemed to be a good spot, but so did the third one which was in the forest north of the town. That forest was dark and secluded, but so were these mountains. The mountains were quite big and had many caves.
"I vote we go check out that cave, it smells like it has a spring in it" I told the others. They nodded and got prepared. We didn't want to take any chances. Even if they weren't in that cave at least we would be prepared for anything that was.
We entered it slowly. It wasn't as dark as the other caves. The floor was muddy, the because of spring. Evergreen patted my shoulder and pointed to the ground. There was a footprint in the mud. It was recent and it couldn't be one of the residents of the town because they didn't go near these caves because of some ancient belief. We followed the footprints and they ended up at the wall of the cave. Upon closer inspection you could see that there were both footprints coming and going from the wall.
I wasn't going to take any chances. So I pulled my fist back and hit the wall as hard as I could. So much for being quiet. Once the smoke cleared we all gasped.
What do you think?
Is Laxus in character enough?