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Chapter 2

Lucy woke up from her nap, noticing the sun was starting to set. She decided to get dressed and go get something to eat. She put on a pair of tight black jeans, with a blue crop top, and a jean jacket. She braided her hair to keep it out of the way.

She found a small café to eat a light dinner at. Once done she started to walk to the area the mayor said the dark mages had been attacking the most. Once she got to the area, she decided to find a place to hide and watch. She climbed a ladder on the side of a building to sit on the roof to watch for the mages.

An hour went by before she heard the sound of a window shattering. She moved to the end of the roof to look down, she noticed movement out of the corner of her eye. The mages were walking towards the building she was on, she took out her whip and wrapped the end around the hanging sign on the building. As soon as they were passed the sign, she swung down behind them. She quickly wrapped the whip around one of the mages and flung him against the wall. The other mage turned around and punched at Lucy. She dodged the punch, and Lucy kicked the mage. He grunted but wasn't taken down.

"You must be pretty stupid to take on dark mages by yourself girl." He sneered. Lucy just smirked, and used her whip to wrap around the mage's wrist. She pulled him towards her and kicked him again knocking the wind out of him. Once he dropped to his knees, kicked him in the head to knock him out. She brushed her hand over Virgo's key.

"Punishment Princess?"

"No Virgo, can you tie these two mages up, with magic canceling handcuffs. I don't want to take a chance."

"Of course Princess." Lucy nodded and started to walk in the direction that the mages had come from. I know there has to be more than two. The mayor said there is around ten mages. So I only have eight more to find and take out. She continued walking, listening for sounds of the other mages. She thought she heard someone talking, and hid against a wall in an alley. The voices slowly became louder. She listened trying to figure out how many people were heading her way. She counted at least four. She waited until they passed her, then quickly tripped the mage closest to her and brought her foot down on the mage's head knocking him unconscious. The other three mages turned around. They started to circle around Lucy. Lucy watched as they circled her, trying to decide the best way to take them down and not get injured.

The mage on her left lunged at her, she barely dodged the attacked and then kicked at the mage. One more down, and two more to go. Both mages rushed her at the same time. She tried to kick at the one in front of her, but he was quicker and grabbed her ankle squeezing it. She bit her lip to keep her from screaming at the pain in her hip. She tried to use her whip on the mage that had her ankle before she could hit him, the other mage rammed into Lucy making her go flying back and through a window. Shards of glass fell around Lucy, one cutting her on her thigh, and a piece was sticking out of her side. She gasped in pain as she tried to move. She brushed her finger over Loke's key.

"Princess! Let us run away together, and get marr- Princess, what happened?" Loke yelled.

"Lo-Loke, I'll be fine, I need help with getting these mages taken care of. I got two of them knocked out, but there should be two more close to here that need to be taken care of."

"Don't worry Princess, I will find them and deal with them." With that he stalked out of the store to find the two mages who hurt his Princess. He found them two stores down going through different items in the magic shop. Loke powered up his ring, and climbed through the window. Loke pushed up his glasses and said, "So you are the ones who hurt my Princess." He didn't give them time to react, he quickly shot his Regulus Impact, taking out both mages at once.

Virgo appeared next to him with handcuffs. Once the mages were handcuffed, they dragged them back to the shop were Lucy was. She had gotten off the floor and was now outside the shop. Lucy pulled the shard of glass from her side, gasping as she pressed her hand against it to try and stop the bleeding. Shit that hurts!

"Thank you Loke and Virgo. Virgo please gather the six mages and tie their legs together. Loke I want you to help me find the last four mages. The mayor had told me that there are ten of them."

"Princess, you are hurt and can't go after those mages! Allow me to find them and take care of them for you."

"No Loke, this is my mission, and you know I will not stand behind you while you fight. Besides the bleeding has almost stopped." Lucy started to walk down the road trying to figure out where the other mages would be.

Loke growled, "Virgo stay here with these mages, Princess and I will find the others and bring them back here. Please have some bandages ready for Lucy." Virgo bowed as Loke followed after her. They walked for ten minutes before they heard voices. They walked up to store to look through the window. Luckily the last of the mages they were looking for were there.

"Let me go in first and distract them, then you can come in and take out two while I get the other two." Lucy said. Loke wanted to argue, but the look on her face made him close his mouth without saying anything. He nodded as she began to climb through the window and ducked behind a shelf. She slowly moved until she was behind one of the mages. She kicked at the mage and brought her to the floor. She went to kick her and knock her out, but Lucy stopped when the pain laced through her ankle. She quickly grabbed the mage's head in her hands and smashed her head into the shelf, knocking her out.

Loke had snuck in, and quickly punched the closest mage in the head, dropping him to the floor. He then lunged at the mage that was closing in on Lucy. He started punching him and getting him to back away from her. He fought with the dark mage for a few minutes before using his mage to knock him out. He quickly turned around when he heard Lucy scream in pain.

The dark mage that Lucy was fighting had a knife and had sliced her face on the left side. Then knocked Lucy down and started to kick her over where she had been stabbed by the glass. The wound opened, and she was pretty sure she had a cracked rib or two. Loke growled, and lunged at the mage. He got the knife out of the mage's hand, and knocked his head into the shelf. The mage dropped to the floor as Loke kneeled in front of Lucy and slowly picked her up.

"Lucy call Virgo here to cuff this mages, I'm taking you back to your hotel room." Lucy nodded, and called Virgo.

"Virgo please handcuff these mages and take them to where the others are. I will call the rune knights and give them the location. Will you stay and answer the questions for me?"

"Of course, Princess. I will also let the knights know where you will be shall they need to speak with you." Lucy nodded as Loke started carrying her back to the hotel.

Loke sighed, "Princess why didn't you call me or one of your spirits to help you? I know you feel that you need to prove yourself and become stronger, but you are strong. I don't like that you got hurt like this."

"Loke, I am fine. Just a few scratches. Just need to get them bandaged once we are back at the hotel." Loke shook his head, knowing she was hiding her pain from him.

Virgo appeared as soon as they reached the hotel room. "Princess, the mages have been taken away by the rune knights."

"Thank you Virgo. Could you help me wash up and bandage these cuts?"

"Of course Princess." Lucy and Virgo went into the bathroom, while Loke disappeared back to the spirit world saying he would check on her later. Virgo helped Lucy wash her hair and body. Once out of the shower Virgo checked the wound on Lucy's side.

"This needs to be stitched Princess. I can do that for you, and then wrap your waist to help with the broken ribs." Lucy nodded and laid down on the bed so Virgo could stitch the wound. Once the wound was cleaned and stitched, Virgo put gauze over it, before wrapping her ribs. Once finished Virgo disappeared to the spirit world. Lucy decided to watch some lacrimavision. She fell asleep watching the show.

In the morning she ate breakfast, and then walked to the mayor's house to report that she had completed the job. She collected the reward, and headed back to her hotel room. She had decided she would take a couple days and site see while she was here. She was sad about not being able to go to the spa due to her injuries.

She went into a magic shop, and bought a new key. I can't wait to make a contract with you! I remember my mother telling me about you! Lucy had bought the key of the bear cub, Polaris. She clipped in on her key ring with her other keys. She then decided to buy a couple new outfits. Once she was done, she stopped and picked up dinner to take back to her hotel room. Before she ate, she decided to call the guild and let them know she was okay. She pushed a bit of magic into the lacrima and waited for gramps or Mira to answer. But neither answered, it was Laxus. She silently groaned.

"Shit Blondie what happened? This is why I didn't want you to go by yourself!" He yelled. She sighed and winced when she moved to try and get more comfortable.

"Laxus I'm fine, nothing that won't heal." Laxus glared at her.

"I'm going to have Wendy look at you wounds when you get back."

"Fine Laxus. I will be back tomorrow." Lucy then went to explain about the mission. Laxus was impressed and proud of her, not that he told her or let it show. Once the call was disconnected, she ate her dinner and then decided to get some sleep. She let out a sigh when she thought about going back to the guild. I think I may go solo for awhile. I think that will be easier for me, even though the rest of the team will fight me on it. It's what I need to do..