Chapter 1
Magnolia X791
They had won they had beat all the damn mages that Mard Geer had thrown at them. They had survived, hugs had been given and tears had been cried. Lucy looked around smiling clutching the key fragment in her hand tightly smiling as her tattered skirt and bralette in place as she looked around, limping she made her way towards Porlyusca's hut even if the old bat didn't like people. Lucy could swear that she even had a few cracked ribs but didn't want to bother anyone with her issues. Besides, the old biddy could deal with her after her last bout of angry grumbling at her when she went in during the Games.
Rolling her eyes Lucy continued walking trying to shake out the ringing in her ears and grabbed her key ring to place Aquarius's key back when Loke appeared before her picking her up before she could say anything. Holding her he carried her to Porlyusca's hut through the forest.
"Loke…" Lucy started not looking at his face knowing what she would see. After all, all of her spirits had the tiny quirks that made them special and dear to her the fact that Loke her most flirtatious spirit was quiet was unnerving. Was he disappointed? Scared that she would also break his key to summon the Spirit King once more? A tear trailed down her cheek, making a clean line on her bloody dirty cheek.
Her inner thoughts though had caused for her to not notice the fact that Loke was speaking to her and that the ringing in her ears had died completely, taking with it her ability to hear. Loke hearing his name was confused as to why she hadn't continued her sentence. Arriving at Porlyusca's hut he kicked the door with his foot causing for the said old dragon to pop her head out.
"What?! Where is the little dragon child? After all, she is your healer." Porlyusca looked at the blonde within the spirit's arms and shook her head. Taking her head back and about shut the door it was pushed open as Loke walked in setting Lucy on the bed next to Laxus.
"Porlyusca, can…" Lucy stopped and looked around opening her mouth she tried again, "Porly…" Eyes widening she screamed tears gathered at the corner of her eyes leaving tracks where they ran. She grabbed at her ears smacking them, sticking her fingers within them coming back with bloody fingers. Hands shaking she shook her head. No, no, no. She felt hands grab her pinning her down. Looking up she saw Loke's face confused, upset and angry. She shook her head whimpering at least she thought she was. She saw as Loke moved his mouth but no sound reached her ears.
Porlyusca stood watching as the girl began to panic before grabbing a potion to shove down her throat as the lion pinned her down she grabbed Lucy's mouth shoving the potion to place her into a deep slumber.
"Porlyusca what's wrong with her? Can you heal her?" The lion spirit anguished at the woman holding his master's now limp form. "She was fine why is she acting like that now?"
Loke couldn't help but feel an intense anger sweep towards him. Lucy was one of his closest friends and when she needed him, he wasn't there for her. He knew that losing Aquarius would take a toll on her but to this point, it was angering every single one of them had gone to the gate trying to take it down so that they would be the ones sacrificed. Anyone but Aquarius she was too important to Lucy and Lucy was too important to Aquarius to be separated.
"She's gone deaf stop your blubbering," Porlyusca said as she allowed her hands to move expertly healing and closing wounds on the blonde the best she could leaving behind white shimmering scars. She paused over her ears staring as she felt the true damage that was far too irreversible for her to ever fix. She simply healed the bleeding wound but couldn't reverse the damage of her hearing loss.
"What?"
"There her wounds are fixed, but she will never hear again the trauma was too deep," Porlyusca said simply writing a sign for the mage on the bed saying in large letters 'You've gone deaf, I tried.' Before giving it to the lion spirit. "Just give this to her once she wakes up take her with you."
"Porlyusca, please just try something else, just heal her ears, please," the lion spirit said kneeling at the woman's feet tears streaming down his cheeks denying the reality of the situation.
"Nothing else can be done lion," Porlyusca said with finality before storming out into her room. Leaving behind Loke who could only stare at his master.