Guess who got a new laptop and is updating just for everyone who has to stay at home quarantined. Now that a lot of people are gonna be stuck at home bc of the COVID-19 I felt it was only right that I hurry and put out a new chapter. So please enjoy, follow, like, comment and look forward to a another chapter soon. Sorry about that everyone had a few editing mistakes so I had to delete my first post
Lucy continued her trek towards the direction Racer told her Wendy was most likely being held. Unfortunately, the anger she felt towards the Oración Seis was causing her power to seep out decimating everything in her path.
Loke couldn't help but shake his head at the burnt forestry that was being left behind because of his master's rage.
"Lucy, I'm angry too, but you gotta calm down. Remember what Lucifer told you about always going into battle with a clear head." Loke said. He hoped his words would placate his masters hot head but with how important Wendy was to Lucy he was unsure whether his words would be enough. Loke knew, sadly, that there was no stopping a demon from destroying everything in sight once their kin were stolen from them.
Lucy paused in her steps and sighed. In a surprise show of weakness for the weirdly strong mage, Lucy fell to the ground on her knees, drawing circles in the dirt as she paused to think what to do next. She needed to take this break and clear her fuzzy head. She knew going in flames blazing would only lead to Wendy possibly getting hurt, and Lucy would never EVER forgive herself if the little bluenette got caught in the crossfire.
"Luce…did say that, but Wendy is my lil' dragon and I…I let her get taken." Lucy sighed from where she now lay on the ground looking at the clouds.
"Exactly, so take five and think about what we should do next…okay?" Loke said encouragingly.
"Alright...hey Loke?"
"Hmm."
"Which way is South again?"
"For Luce's sake", Loke groaned, slapping his forehead in disbelief. They had been walking for at least an hour with Lucy leading them to who knows where now.
"Lucy…are you telling me you're not sure if we're walking the right way?" Loke groaned.
"You know I'm not good at directions! I don't know why you wouldn't double check." Lucy huffed.
Loke conceded at the blonde's point. "You know you're right, I should have remembered you getting us lost and somehow taking us to Giltena, THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION OF ALIKATASIA!" Loke yelled.
Lucy tsked at the lion spirit bringing up that old memory. "Look, are we going south or not?"
"I'm not a compass Lucy. Call Pyxis out and see."
"Smart idea, I like it." A few minutes later and a bird like compass spirit happily put Lucy and Loke back in the right direction. As it turns out they were in fact not going South but West of their destination.
"Little guy loves when you get lost, doesn't he?" Loke chuckled.
Lucy nodded, "Yeah, cause then he gets called out and gets to show off how awesome he is."
"Huh, I'm kinda surprised we haven't heard anyone screaming in pain yet." Natsu said.
"Yeah, woulda thought Lucy would run into somebody and get rid of them for us, you know so we don't have to." Gray sighed. If only, he thought.
Erza smashed their heads together annoyed. "While we are dealing with dangerous dark mages, we do not want anyone dead! Lucy is not in her right mind set and will most likely do worst to anyone she sees. Racer is barely alive because of Ichiya's health revive perfume."
Natsu and Gray looked to eachother before shrugging. They couldn't really find it in themselves to feel bad for any dark mages who get hurt, given that they literally kidnapped a little girl.
Those from Lamia Scale and Blue Pegasus couldn't help but feel the same.
"So, you think I shouldn't kill anyone, maim is alright, but not kill because it will make me unattractive to my mate?" Lucy recited, taking note from three of her spirits who had come out to comfort her. Loke having left to take a rest.
"Yes, princess. If you kill any of these mages, then I believe Erza may not approve of you as a potential romance partner." Virgo said.
"Yeah ebi, think about it, who wants to get with a murderer." Cancer said.
"Indeed Lucy-sama. And besides you promised to no longer kill." Capricorn scolded.
Lucy sighed in agreement with her spirits. "So damn troublesome. Well, I did promise that, and I don't want to let you guys or my mate down. Alright no killing, but I will hurt them bad, cool?"
"We can accept that." Virgo said before disappearing.
"All good, ebi." Cancer said shooting peace signs.
"Your terms are acceptable." Capricorn says bowing.
Meanwhile Erza couldn't help stopping where she was as a shiver ran down her spine. "I have the oddest feeling the dumb demon is going to get in even more trouble."
"Yeah, you're probably right about that, then again is Luce really Luce if she isn't doing something to get herself in trouble?" Natsu snickered.
Erza slapped her face tired. "No, no she isn't."
"What the hell are with these weird vines? Every time I take a step, they like, what's that word where things stay on you and don't release" Lucy said, waving a hand around as if that would help her.
"Trap you?" A voice said, watching their vines slowly wrap around Lucy squeezing her. A smirk appeared on their face once they thought they had gotten the upper hand.
"Nah, these weak plants could never do that." Lucy said annoyed, proving her words correct as she effortlessly snaps the vines off her, and continues her trek forward as if she were never even trapped.
"No, what my brain is thinking and tryna say is like they're tryna stop me from moving forward but they can't and it's really annoying." Lucy said, not even questioning the random voice that appeared.
"How did?" Altor whispered.
Loke slapped his face at his oblivious master who was busy conversing with the villain trying to sneak attack her. "This is not gonna end well." Already back in the spirit world so as not to get caught in the crossfire. Loke only prayed the villain didn't end up dead.
"Whadda ya talking bout Loke, I'll take care of these vines… right now!" Lucy grinned devilishly, immediately setting fire to practically everything around her.
"Not vines, villain!" Aquarius yelled.
"Ahhh!" Altor screamed, the intense heat coming from the blonde idiot in front of him was too much for all his vines trying to protect him. In the end her flames vaporized every single one eventually taking him out, leaving him nothing but a burnt mess.
Taking a breath Lucy looked to the area she decimated, satisfied with her work. After enough admiring of her work she walked on, oblivious to the mage she had accidently taken out with her flames.
"All clear Loke! Loke?" Lucy yelled looking around for her trusty spirit.
"Virgo. Please." Loke said tiredly.
"No thank you, big brother." Virgo said in her signature monotone.
"At least check to see if Atlas is alive?" Loke asked.
"Are you kidding me, you see how hot the brat's flames were, that guy's dead." Aquarius sighed. "Not even worth wasting energy to check. And I'm pretty sure the guys named is Adlib."
"No way, it's Atlord!" Scorpio yelled.
"Nah, ebi's name was Annie." Cancer said.
"I am absolutely positive it was not that." Loke deadpanned.
"I'm sorry, but if Annabelle is dead, does that mean princess broke her promise, sorry?" Aries asked.
"We are! Not technically since she didn't even notice the idiot tryna attack her." Scorpio laughed. God, he loved his master.
"Lucifer grant me strength." Loke said, deciding it was okay to turn a blind eye to the formerly new member of the Oración Seis.
"Andrea!" Sagittarius yelled.
After walking for a while longer Lucy looked around her surroundings disappointed. So far, she hadn't seen anybody to fight, and take her anger out on.
"What a drag."
"IF YOU WERE PAYING ATTENTION PRINCESS THEN YOU WOULD'VE!" Every single spirit of Lucy's shouted.
"This is boring I'm just gonna- "
"Don't you even dare do that." Aquarius growled, finally coming out of her key to stop her idiot brat from doing something even more idiotic. She had lost rock, paper, scissors to the other spirits, leaving her to be the one to have to come out and stop Lucy form being her usual dumb self.
"But it'll make it easier to find her!"
"No! Look, you are not burning down this forest like Lucifer used to do just so you can create a shortcut to those idiots' hideout. Just, I don't know sniff out the little kid." Aquarius said, trying and failing to act as if she wasn't also worried about Wendy.
Lucy bit her lip in thought. "That could work but Brain teleported Wendy away, I can't sniff her out like that."
The spirit frowned at Lucy's words. So basically, they were at square one, letting the idiot do her own thing. However, Lucy being her usual self-decided not to let this get her down and continued walking forward.
"Alright! No more stopping guys, every second you stop is a second Wendy could already be by my side!" Lucy cheered.
"Wha-you're the one who's been stopping!" Aquarius yelled, smacking Lucy on the back of her head.
"Ow, stop, please, we need to-ow, keep going!" Lucy whined trying and failing to block Aquarius hits.
Meanwhile with Natsu and the others
"So obviously Lucy was here." Erza deadpanned. Right in front of them lay a burnt body, with a good deal of the surrounding area scorched.
"Awesome, one less bad guy for us to take out!" Natsu cheered.
"Yeah, leave it to Lucy to cut us some slack." Gray said, high fiving Natsu.
"Indeed, while I don't condone killing, this is actually quite beneficial for us." Leon said smirking.
Blue Pegasus couldn't help but agree.
Erza already felt an oncoming headache from the idiots behind her. "You know what, I think it's about time we split up. We'll cover more ground that way." Erza noted.
The rest of the group nodded in agreement.
"So how are we gonna group up?" Gray asked.
"Well, there are really only five members of the Oración Seis left once you rid the two Lucy took out already. With the information Lucy has gotten us we know their base is south of here and they plan on using Wendy. What for, we're not sure." Erza said.
"Alright then, well I guess if it's a case of who we're going after then I'll go after that angel chick. If Lucy can beat her, then she can't be that tough." Gray announced.
" Sherry and I shall go with Gray." Leon nodded to Gray, who smirked. "Depending on the type of magic she has Sherry's doll magic may prove useful."
"Very well." Erza nodded in approval at the group. "That works. Jura?"
"I wish to engage Hot-Eye." Jura frowned. "Softening the earth and hardening the earth. Our magic against each other is basically a battle of which is stronger. Let me handle him."
"Hmm." Erza turned to the rest. "And the rest?"
"I'll fight Cobra!" Natsu shouted. "If Lucy can take him on no problem then so can I! Plus, I'll have Happy by my side to help me against his flying snake!"
Erza thought about the match up for a moment before accepting. "Very well but take note that Cobra can somehow predict your moves before you even do them and be careful."
"We got this!"
"Well then, since Angel, Cobra and Hot-Eye are being taken care of. I'll take on Midnight." Erza announced. "Blue Pegasus you search for Nirvana."
"Right!"
"Men!"
"Brain we're coming for you." Erza thought.
"Kyaaa!" Wendy wailed after Brain tossed her roughly against a cave wall.
Cobra frowned at the little girl his boss tossed, he still didn't understand the purpose of her and was a little unsure that it was a good idea to even take her. "Yo Brain, you ever gonna tell us who this girl is?"
"I mean, is there a connection to Nirvana?
"It doesn't look like it..." Angel observed, studying her carefully.
"Her magic. It relates to the magic of the skies..." Brain informed them. "In other words, healing magic", he explained, after seeing their confused faces.
"What's healing- "
Wendy noticing that none of them were paying any attention to her, slowly got up and began sucking in mouthfuls of air. Despite knowing she probably couldn't take them all on, especially with the leader there, she had hoped she could at least distract them long enough to get away. Once Wendy got her fill of air, she quickly released it all.
"SKY DRAGON ROAR!"
"Crash!"
"My powers aren't only for healing! She yelled at the scrambled members of Oración Seis. Wendy was halfway through the cave, happiness filling her at the prospect of getting away. With still no sign of anyone chasing her Wendy kept on running despite wanting to pass out from fatigue.
Lucy's gonna be so pr- "Lucy!"
Just as Wendy was about to reach what looked to be an exit her eyes widened, heart beating fast as she saw Lucy, an equally giant grin on her face, appearing before her. She was going to be saved from theses monsters. Tears of joy fell from her face as she continued to run to the girl she looked up to.
"LU-LUCY!?" Wendy screamed. Before Wendy could reach Lucy, the older blonde was shot through straight through the stomach by one of Brains blasts, leaving a gaping hole in her stomach. Blood shot out from her mouth, eyes widening in surprise at the attack. Wendy hurried to reach the girl but true to her personality tripped and was only able to watch as Lucy was then strangled by Cobras giant snake, the bright light in her saviors' eyes beginning to dim.
"LUCYYYY! Nooo!" Wendy reached out crying, watching in horror as Lucy fell backwards from the cliff of the cave once relased from the giant snakes clutches. Wendy all but passed out from the shock of seeing Lucy die right in front of her eyes.
"Whoa. Midnight what the hell did you make the kid see?" Angel say, slightly disturbed by the way the bluenette was screaming in agony, tears streaming down her face before finally passing out.
"Her worst nightmare…whatever that is." The goth mage said shrugging, going back to sleep.
Cobra and the others looked at eachother all in agreement never to piss off the sleeping mage.
"Now that that's over, tell me again what's the point of her?"
"Her healing magic, I just said, we were going to use her healing magic. Were you even listening?"
Cobra scratched the back of his head, "Heh, not really. Wait hold up. Are you saying-"
"Yes, finally you get it!" Brain shouted. "She will revive him for us."
Brain smirked. "Cobra, bring you know who here so when the girl wakes up everything can begin to fall into place."
"It's so far..." The man sighed. "Uh, stupid Racer getting his ass kicked. It's gonna take a bit to get him."
"That's fine."
"Hot-Eye, Angel, Midnight, and Alto- where is Altor." Brain commanded.
Angel rolled her eyes. "Uh, hell if I know. Probably was an idiot and tried going after blondie only to get his ass kicked."
"I hate that you're most likely right. Whatever he wasn't even an official Oracion member, so let's continue on with our plans. Cobra, once done, assist Hot-eye and Angel with the search for Nirvana. In case complications arise, I, as well as Midnight, will remain here."
"Got it." Cobra nodded, leaving for their guest.
"Nirvana, a magic that exchanges the light and darkness will finally be ours." Brain grinned darkly.
Natsu was in the middle of walking with Happy and Charle when he began speaking to the white cat who had decided to join them.
"Hey, why exactly are you with us?" Happy asked. "Not that I'm complaining, you can follow me anywhere, but I thought you would want to follow Lucy?"
"While that is true, Lucy and I aren't exactly best friends." Charle observed. "Yes, Lucy and I both care about Wendy immensely, but to be honest we'd most likely just insult each other the entire way." Charle softly smiled. "Lucy and I have more of a love-hate relationship."
Natsu and Happy were surprised to find the prim and proper cat smiling at her words, but then again anything having to do with Lucy usually was funny.
She turned to Natsu after she got a hold of herself. "What about you and Lucy? You two seem close."
Natsu smiled at the cat's question. Now this was one question he was more than happy to answer.
"Heck yeah we are. We're best friends! Luce is my partner and we're gonna find Igneel and Lucifer together so they can battle to see who is stronger one day." Natsu boasted.
Charle smiled at the dragon slayer happy the blonde fool found another person to care for her. Their happy moment however was interrupted by a dark beam flying right past Happy's face.
"Ah, Natsu someone tried attacking me!" Happy cried.
Natsu immediately lit his fists readying himself for a fight. "No one hurts my best friend and gets away with it!"
"That's what you think." A gruff voice laughed before shooting another beam at Natsu who dodged.
"Fire Dragons Roar!"
"Not so fast! Wind slicer!"
Natsu stared surprised as his fire was slashed in half by the appearance of a new mage. To be honest the move kinda reminded him of Juvia's water slicer but he couldn't really give it much more thought before another gust of wind was shot at him.
"Oh man, I'm all fired up!" Natsu yelled, excited to finally be fighting.
Meanwhile in another part of the forest Lucy was standing back to back with Loke in a battle-ready stance, currently having gotten herself in the same situation as Natsu had. She couldn't help but smile at the amount of people surrounding them though, finally she could fight.
"Hey, you guys know where Oracion-seis is hiding?" Lucy asked.
"Maybe, maybe not," One said.
"Gato-niisan don't go telling people that we might know about Oracion-seis!" another bandit yelled.
"That's why I also said maybe we didn't, Zato-niisan."
Lucy and Loke looked at eachother confused. "Is that a yes?"
"We are Naked Mummy, an Oración Seis-affiliated guild." Gato announced.
"Alright then, so they do know!" Lucy cheered. "This makes things easier."
"Ho ho ho!" Zato chuckled, waving a hand. "Hear that brother, blonde one thinks we'll go easy on her!"
"Nah you got it all wrong, I'm gonna take it easy on you cause Aqua and the others said I can't kill." Lucy explained sagely.
"Ha, as if you could take us out!" Gato laughed.
"I can and I will! And you know what just for that insult Loke take out that annoying monkey!"
Loke grinned at the monkey looking mages ferally. "My pleasure princess."
"You are fools. We are an Oración Seis-affiliated guild. Meaning we are powerful!" Zato repeated.
"So am I!" Lucy shouted. "And also, you just said that, dumbass!"
Zato smirked in anticipation. "Oh yeah, well you are also going to die!"
"Yeah, well so are you!" Lucy yelled.
"Nuhuh, because I said you're gonna die first, so that means you're gonna die first not me."
Lucy looked at the monkey man confused. "But I said it second so it could still mean you'll die first even though I said it second!" Lucy said.
"Nu- "
"Will both of you shut up!" Loke and Gato said.
Five minutes later
Lucy stretched out while high fiving Loke on a job well done. "I think we could've taken those guys out faster but still nicely done Loke." Lucy smiled.
Loke kicked a bandit about to get back up before turning back to smile at his master. "You're probably right but when else are we gonna fight a bunch of talking monkeys?"
Lucy stared at her loyal spirit before answering. "Damn, we should've dragged that out longer."
"You fool, you beat these two men before we could question if they knew where Brain was, or if they were even associated with the Oración Seis!" Charle yelled, wincing at the two men still groaning from their beat down. That wasn't even a fight to be honest.
Natsu picked at his ear before speaking, "Ha, now I get why you and Lucy don't get along!"
Charle couldn't help the twitch of her eyebrow, at the dragon slayers comment. "And now I know why you and she get along so well."
"No sign of the dumb demon anywhere, or Brain…this is not good." Erza sighed as she continued her trek farther into the woods. Surprisingly Erza had yet to encounter anyone or thing that could prove to be of use to her.
Back with the Oración Seis
"Here. Next time we want to resurrect a dude in a coma can we at least make sure we have him already with us." Cobra groaned, slamming a large coffin down.
"Why didn't you just have your flying snake help you with it?" Brain deadpanned.
"Cubellios is my friend, I would never make her do such lowly peasant work." Cobra hissed.
Brain stared at his subordinate blankly. "Anyways, wake the girl." Brain smirked as he unlocked the coffin.
Cobra nodded kicking the girl in the stomach giving her a rude awakening. "Ughh!" Wendy grunted, tears streaming down her face as she awoke from her sleep.
"Ahh, nice to see you finally awake Sky Sorceress. You were asleep for quite a while." Brain chuckled. "You had quite the fit but now that you're awake we can get back on track."
Wendy rubbed her aching stomach, trying to remember what happened exactly that had made her pass out. It hit her a few moments later, that Lucy had died right in front of her eyes, killed by these monsters. Wendy covered her face as she began to cry even harder, the knowledge that the girl she loved was dead destroyed her.
"Not again, Cobra!" Brain yelled.
"On it." The dragon slayer yawned kneeling to the younger girl and backhanding her. "Knock it off already!"
Wendy was tossed backwards at the force of the mans hit. She couldn't help the tears that fell from her face but knew if she continued to cry then she might experience even more pain from them. Wiping her face, she nodded and looked to the leader.
"There we go, now that I have your attention, I'll explain to you that for your own good, you will cure this man here."
"That coffin seems really creepy." Wendy shivered. "I don't like creepy things, so I'll pass."
Cobra and Brain looked at each other in shock. This little girl had spunk.
Cobra chuckled, "Kid's attitude did a total 180…I like her."
"No, no passing! You will." Brain countered. "Otherwise your life will be shorter then you're height."
Wendy turned around in tears. "I'm not that short! Besides Charle said I'm still growing you jerk!"
"Damn Brain, you're really ruthless." Cobra said.
"I'm evil, what do you expect." Brain shrugged, opening the coffin revealing an unconscious Jellal.
Wendy gasped at the sight before her. She hadn't seen this person in so long.
"This man is Jellal." Brain informed her. "He has once managed to infiltrate the Magic Council. In short, he knows where Nirvana is."
"Jellal..." Wendy whispered. "I wanna see you again, but he made fun of my height and killed Lucy, so I kinda don't wanna do anything that might help this jerk." Wendy teared up.
"This man is a ghost haunted by another ghost..." Brain smirked. "A sad idealist... however, you owe him quite a lot, don't you? Hurry up and revive him."
"But if he's a ghost, isn't he already dead? I can't heal dead people." Wendy said.
"What. No, he's not actually dead, I mean he's just- you know what I hope you know your sassiness did this!"
Wendy paled when Brain grew impatient and brought a dagger out. She prayed he wasn't going to do what she thought he was going to do. "Please no, I'm not strong like Lucy. I'm just a marshmallow!" she found herself yelling.
"No, you deserve this marshmallow!" Brain yelled. Then before Wendy could even blink, he brought down the dagger and stabbed it into Jellal's arm. It was a bit confusing to Wendy.
"Uh...what was that supposed to do?" Wendy asked, still terrified of the situation.
Brain and Cobra looked at each other than back to Wendy. "It was supposed to make you want to heal him now!"
"But you stabbed him not me, I care about Jellal but…you're stabbing the person you need not me. If I'm not injured than…you know…" Wendy shrugged, rubbing her arm.
"She's got a point." Cobra said.
"Who raised you?" Brain scoffed. "I mean really, healing him should be simple enough for you, so just do it."
Wendy puffed up her cheeks and looked away defiantly. Despite her not wanting to see such an important person in pain, she knew deep down if she healed him then something very bad would happen.
"It seems you need a little time to make up your mind." Brain mused. "Very well. You have five minutes to think this over."
"Twenty!"
"Ten."
"Fifteen."
"Dear god…twelve."
"…Thirteen."
"FINE FINE! If you will think it over then thirteen minutes is what you will get, BUT THAT IS ALL!" Brain roared. "But to help hurry the process here's a little taste of what's to come if you don't make a decision in the allotted time." Brain chuckled darkly.
Before Wendy could react, a searing pain erupted in her arm, looking down she saw a deep gash appear. Tears welling up at the pain.
"Tch, shoulda expected that kid" Cobra said. He really didn't care what they did to who so long as they got what they wanted, so seeing this kid get hurt was just another means to an end.
Wendy couldn't help but begin to cry, knowing that no matter what she decided Jellal was getting healed and she was most definitely going to end up with a scar.
"Aww man Happy, look at this. We missed a hell of a fight." Natsu said pouting. Right in front of them was pile after pile of monkey people.
"Well at least it looks like we're going in the right direction Natsu." Happy said.
"Indeed, and by the looks of it, this was Lucy's doing." Charle added.
"Yeah, man I bet this was one hell of a fight." Natsu sighed as he began to sprint towards his partner. "Well, at least I got to fight those two random weirdos, too bad they never said who they were."
"That's because you didn't even try asking them! You just up and beat them before even trying to get answers from them!" Charle yelled exasperated.
"Semantles." Natsu replied.
"Do not even with that word." Charle deadpanned.
Lucy paused in her steps sniffing the air. The scent of blood, it was familiar to her and it got her even angrier than she already was.
"You just made the biggest mistake of your life Brain." Lucy growled, flames erupting around her as she ran to where she smelt the blood.
"Oh!" Angel grinned. "Look what I found!
"Well, well, well. If it isn't little miss devil." Gray drawled.
Leon and Sherry laughed. "Indeed."
"My name is Angel!"
Gray, Leon and Sherry stared blankly at the former celestial user, unfazed by her outburst.
Angel growled at the three light guild members. She knew exactly why they weren't treating her as a threat, and they were going to regret that.
"Nah, I think we'll be just fine." Gray replied, to Angel who had accidently spoken aloud.
"Yes, if that blonde buffoon could beat you then the three of us will have no problem." Sherry yawned.
Angel stomped her foot angrily. "I am going to enjoy killing you three."
Leon and Gray got into their ice make stance while Sherry summoned a rock puppet. "We'll see about that." The three said in unison.
"What the lucifer is this?" Lucy growled, her anger only growing at the scene before her and Loke. Wendy was seen crying on the ground holding a bloody arm, a giant bruise clear on her face. Meanwhile a smirking Brain, and a fully restored and stoic Jellal stood across from the others. Cobra had left a while ago to see where Altor was and check on the status of Nirvana.
"Lu-Lucy..." Wendy croaked, voice filled with happiness. " You're...a-alive" she hiccupped. "I'm sorry, it's just…he threatened me, and I thought you died, I really am a marshmallow."
Brain smirked over at Lucy. "She's the fluffiest marshmallow in the batch."
"SHE IS NO MARSHMALLOW, SHE IS A LIL' DRAGON!" Lucy roared. Barely holding back from exploding and potentially injuring the person she came here to save. "AND I'M GONNA KILL YOU FOR MAKING MY LIL' DRAGON THINK I DIED!"
Brain froze in place at the blonde's yell. Even he was slightly thrown off by her power.
"Lil dragon, lil marshmallow. Call her what you want because in the end she did her job." Brain composed himself. "I have what I wanted!"
"DIE!" Lucy yelled, a scorching hot fist embedding itself in the leader of the Oración Seis stomach.
"Ack!" Lying motionlessly on the ground Lucy then turned to the other presence in the cave, her anger only doubling.
"Jello..." Lucy growled, the air heating up around her. "Why are you here?"
Jellal eyed Lucy calmly as the girl went to charge at him, not speaking. Instead he stretched out a hand, engulfing Lucy in a blast of energy. However much to his surprise Lucy came rushing through it with her signature white cloak shielding her. Before he could defend himself, Lucy was already in the process of giving him an uppercut to the jaw.
The blow from her threw Jellal back several feet. While Brain observed from where he lay, he grew shocked the blonde was able to withstand such a blast and began preparing his own attack.
"That was…. quite impressive" Brain huffed. "However, let's see you dodge this!" the dark mage yelled with what little strength he had, "Dark Cap-Ughh!"
Within seconds Lucy was in front of Brain serving a nice firm kick in the mages face, the intensity of the blow throwing him into shock and knocking him out. However, despite being down for the count, Lucy refused to let up and continued to beat the downed man. By the time she was finished the leader was unrecognizable.
"You're lucky I know how to hold back, otherwise you'd be dead from my beating." Lucy explained threateningly to the unconscious man.
"Uh...you sure he's not dead, princ- wait never mind he's still breathing." Loke called out as he checked the dark mages pulse. The celestial spirit let out a sigh of relief. Despite wanting to stop Lucy, he really couldn't find it in his heart to once he saw Wendy's bloody arm, bruised face with tears streaming down. Realizing she was injured because of Brain even he was tempted to let Lucy kill the man.
Lucy shot a thumbs up to her spirit as she headed to where Wendy lay on the ground. Her priority, aside from getting rid of Brain, was making sure Wendy was alright. Lucy smiled wide at the small mage unaware of Jellal slowly getting back up frowning. With his hand outstretched towards Lucy, the newly revived mage went and blasted a hole beneath Lucy's feet sending her away from him.
Before Wendy could warn Lucy about Jellal's attack Lucy was already falling, this time the older girl was reaching out to Wendy as she disappeared before the smaller girls' sight.
"Lucy!" Wendy yelled.
"Regulus punch!" Loke yelled slamming a golden fist in the newly revived mages stomach.
Jellal staggered backwards thrown off by the punch, giving Loke enough time to send another punch to Jellal. However, this time he was ready and sent another pulse of magic at the spirit sending him back to the spirit world.
Wendy, too occupied in seeing if Lucy was alright, missed Jellal walking pass her out of the cave.
"Grrr, I wasn't gonna kill anyone tahday, till Jellal came around! Might make meh brek dat promise, oke!" Lucy's muffled voiced yelled from beneath all the rubble. Wendy looked to where she heard Lucy's voice, immediately jumping out of the way when she came shooting out of the hole with a feral grin on her face and immense heat emitting off her body.
""Jellal..." Lucy scowled. "That blueberry bastard... who does he think he is showing up here making me fall through a hole, he's gonna pay for that...but first." Lucy paused and turned to where Wendy was initially laying, the demon slayer running to the smaller girl patting the smaller body all over checking for any injuries. The urge to kill Brain rising at the sight of Wendy's injuries.
"Lil dragon, I'm so super-duper sorry I let you get taken!" Lucy yelled, head touching the ground as she bowed down to the smaller girl. "Now look, you got hurt cause me!"
Wendy waved off Lucy's apologies, or at least tried to, her arm and face hurt a lot. Instead she jumped into her arms, tears of joy falling. She was so happy that Lucy didn't die, and in that moment never wanted to release the blonde. Immediately, Lucy hugged the younger girl back, happy to feel Wendy back in her arms.
"It's okay, look now we'll match!" Wendy said, hoping to soothe Lucy's guilt as she pointed out Lucy's bandaged arm.
Lucy's eyes brightened at the prospect, a giant grin appearing on her face. "Yeah! We will won't we! Hey, wait a sec, where's Jemal?" Lucy asked looking around, sniffing the air.
Wendy looked around noticing the absence of the blueberry haired man. "I don't know, he was here a minute ago." Wendy said, slightly wincing as Virgo applied a bandage over the young girl's injury.
Lucy sighed, this only added to her workload. "So troublesome, now I gotta take care of discount Mystogan."
Wendy giggled at the numerous namedrops Lucy was doing for Jellal, following behind the older girl as they went to find him and the rest of the Oración Seis.
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"It's a little early for my appearance, but then again you were weak." A gruff voice growled. Slowly pushing himself up was not Brain, but rather his alter personality Zero. With shoulder length silver hair and red eyes, this different man smiled creepily at the turn of events, despite all his injuries.
"It seems Jellal has taken to wandering off." Zero drawled, ignoring all the pain in his body. "If he's not here…then he must have his own plans?"
"Cobr-ssss!" He couldn't help but hiss in pain from his injuries. "Grrr, Cobra, Jellal has…fled! Find wherever he's going, if I'm right then he's headed towards Nirvana!"
For now, Zero thought, I will gain my energy back. And before I forget-
"Midnight where the hell were you while Brain was getting the shit beat out of him?!" Zero growled at the newly appeared mage.
Midnight chuckled awkwardly. "Apologies father but I had to use the restroom."
"We are in a cave this whole place is your restroom! Grr, get out of my face right now you little emo wizard." Zero growled.
Lucy! Can you hear me?
Lucy looked around in alarm. "Lucifer! Is that you?"
Oh, uh no it's me, Hibiki of Blue Pegasus. The voice told her.
"Damn it Hoboki, I thought you were Lucifer for a second, I'm so gonna punch you next time I see you!"
"Wait, no please don't, I'm sorry! This was the only way I could connect to everyone and even then, you're the only one who answered so far. Where are you?"
Lucy rolled her eyes at the voice in her head. "Whatever. I'm by a bunch of trees. Oh, and I got Windy with me!"
Shh! Speak a bit lower. Cobra has excellent hearing! There's a risk of him overhearing us, which is why I'm speaking directly into your head. You didn't happen to beat him, did you?"
"Nah, it's weird I haven't run into anyone but Brain and…well it doesn't matter just know I took Brain out but like I beat him up; not I took him out for dinner or something I would never betray my mate like that!"
Uh...okay. Look, I'm uploading a map to your mind that will show you our location... hurry back. Hibiki said.
"What do you..." Lucy bent over in pain at the influx of information downloaded into her head. "Ahhh, too many pictures, too fast!"
Wendy stood next to Lucy patting her back soothingly, in hopes of helping her overcome the pain. It took a few minutes, but as fast as the pain came it left.
"Woo, that sucked, come on Wendy let's go." Lucy said smiling.
"You're so weird Lucy." Wendy smiled, happy to be back with the weirdo.
