Chapter 3

I give warning for the dark and graphic scenes in this chapter.

"I don't care! How long it takes, I want every fucking one of you out there looking for her!" demanded Natsu. They had all gone to the mafia base where Natsu was in front of everyone. "Lucy has been taken, I don't know by who yet but no matter how long it takes, go out now and find her" "We aren't a hero squad" "WHO SAID THAT!" Natsu shouted angrily as everyone stepped away from a young man, Skinny and small. Natsu stood up and walked over towering him. Glaring he said in a cold voice "You want to say that again dirtbag?" Shaking his head fast , he uttered "nnno ssssir" "You say one more word that I don't like and your ass is out of here got it?" He shook his head as Natsu pointed towards the door. "Get your fucking ass out there and start looking" He nodded and ran out the door. "Natsu" "What!?" he snapped angrily. "Keep your head on straight" advised Jellal. "I am keeping it straight. I'm not out there breaking down every fucking door!" "Even so, this is …what are you still doing here, you heard him..GET YOUR ASSES MOVING!" Erza commanded loudly as the other mafia members all ran out the door to begin searching leaving his team with him. "As I was saying, this is not the time to lose your head. You need to stay calm" "I can't Erza…I can't loose her again" his voice trembling with fear. He wouldn't let anyone but his team see him break down and see his true feelings. "I lost her once already..then Layla..I am not going to go through this fucking shit again!" he yelled out balling his hands into fists.

Gajeel went to put a hand on his shoulder when Natsu said "keep your hands off me unless you want to loose them" Throwing his jacket on, he started out the door. "Where are you going?" asked Erza. Turning his head, in a cold voice said "I'm going to look for my wife..I gave an order, that means you too. I want all of you fucking out there…now" They stood up immediately hearing his tone and hurried out the door as Natsu slammed it hard shut behind him. "I'm going to find you Lucy. Wherever you are. Just hold on baby" he thought to himself as he looked in one direction and started running. Lucy couldn't move an inch, it hurt too much. Every inch of her was cut up and bleeding and he gotten to beating her which didn't help her condition. "Still think he will love you?" "You…dumb…assshole.." she said weakly but with sas. "ha, still have fight left in you huh?, well that will be gone soon" he said highly amused as he turned his back making Lucy wonder what horrible thing he was going to do her next. He turned and she saw his pants unzipped. "NO!" she thought horrified as he walked over with a evil smirk slowly taking off her pants as she wriggled as much as she could. "Now ,now" Her eyes flashed at him with anger as he touched her. "Your pretty for a tramp" he said smoothly as she spit at his face. Wiping it off, he punched her in her cheek making her grimace in pain. "That's what you get..now, to clean your mouth. He unzipped his pants all the way letting his cock out. Sticking it right in her mouth, he said "if you bite me, I will break your arm" he told her as she cleared the thought out of her head. Tears came stinging to her eyes as he pumped his cock inside her.

"Lick it" he commanded and while she was hesitant, she did as commanded as he moaned. "Nnnnatsu" she pleaded for him to find her. "Do you like this?" he asked. Terrified, she didn't know what to say as he stared intensely at her. "Lucy." Her eyes widened as she nodded her head quickly as he said "good" as he lifted himself out of her making her cough." "You.. " she didn't get to finish as he stuffed cloth in her mouth but her eyes said everything they needed too. "Your eyes..so angry and fired up..that will go" he said arrogantly as he dropped his pants to the ground walking in front of her. Her whole body started shaking as she profusely shook her head no. "Ha , let's see how long that bravery last now" he said as he inserted himself into her hard and began pounding. She shrieked through the gag as he laughed at her pain. He held her legs down so she couldn't kick him. He ravaged her so hard, he saw the blood and kept going. When he was finally done tormenting her, she wanted to die. "Nattsu..Layla.." she thought. He put his pants back on and walked over to her face where he lifted it up to him. "There it is, that look of utter pain. I told you that you would give up that confidence." He said as he continued to torment her and then when he was finally done, he had two men come down to meet him. "Take her, she won't last much longer..throw her in an ally for him to find so he can sob at her body" he ordered as they bowed their heads and took a unconscious Lucy out and into a car.

Natsu had been looking up and down streets, his mafia mates had called and said they found nothing. The whole day had gone by and the sun was setting as Gray had teamed up with him and they looked together. "FUCK!" he screamed angrily pounding his fist into a brick wall. I'M NOT LOSING HER AGAIN!" "we'll find her Natsu," assured Gray. "Who the fuck took her, damn it!" "I wish I could tell you, but I have no idea" Gray said as thought popped into his head, but he pushed it down. "This is not the time to say that… forgive me Natsu" Natsu took his hand away from the wall as he said "let's keep going" "Natsu, the sun is down and…" Natsu turned and gave him a dark glare silencing Gray. "I don't care. I'll go all fucking night" he turned and continued to walk again as Gray shivered some out of fear as he started walking again. They turned a corner when they saw something. "Hey!, what's that?" Gray said pointing. They ran over and found it was a body. "Do you think somebody dumped her here?" "More then likely, looks like she got into some bad shit..poor girl" said Natsu. Gray turned her over to look at her when he caught sight of her hand. Lifting it up, he very warily and nervously said "Natsu..look" Natsu looked over as his eyes widened at the ring the girl was wearing making him look down at her speechless. "Na….su" it came out barely audible, but he heard it. "Oh my ,LUCY?!" she nodded her head as he clenched his teeth and brought his hand to his mouth in shock. "Jesus christ, what the hell happened to you Lucy?" exclaimed Gray.

Her face was beat up so bad, they couldn't even tell it was her while they saw her body was all cut up. "We need to get to a hospital now" urged Gray, Natsu very carefully went to pick her up as she winced in pain. "I am so sorry baby" he apologized heartbroken he was causing her pain. As he lifted her, he looked down at her legs as fury came to him, but he kept his mouth shut as he laid Lucy's head against him. "Come on, the car isn't far!" Gray said fast as Natsu ran as fast as he into the car, he was silent as he laid Lucy's head in his lap stroking her hair. She opened her eyes slightly to look at him as Natsu said softly and caring "your safe Luce, I swear I'm right here" She trembled as she fell back asleep. He took a deep breath trying not to let everything he felt out as he let the breath out. "How's she doing?" Gray asked. "Just keep driving" he said emotionless. They got the hospital where Gray yelled for help. Nurses came running as they saw Lucy. Natsu growled as they tried to take her. "I promise we wont hurt her.. are you her husband" Natsu nodded his head as a nurse with a caring expression said " the best thing you can do right now is let us take care of us. She's in rough shape." Hearing her caring sincerity, he let go as they laid her on the bed. The nurse touched his hand and said "I promise we will help her" she smiled at him as she ran to the back where they took Lucy. Standing there, Gray put a hand to Natsu's shoulder. "Come on, we need to get the others" he said as they went to the waiting room to call the others.

Once they got there, they rushed into the room. "How is she!" "Why didn't you go to Wendy?" "Who took her" "Woah, woah guys. Ease up" urged Gray waving his hands down at them. They all looked at Natsu who was scary silent sitting in a corner with his hands together and face looking down. "Natsu" Erza said feeling uneasy. "Can you..tell us what happened?" she asked. Taking over for him, Gray said "we don't know guys. When we found her.." "WHAT!" they all shouted. "we couldn't recognized her except for her ring..and when she called out for Natsu" "Oh my..god.." Erza stuttered as Jellal put his hands on her shoulders for comfort. "She was cut up everywhere and her face was so badly beat up. We didn't go to Wendy because there wasn't time, we had to get her to the hospital immediately. Natsu picked her up an" Natsu made a grunt as they turned to face him. He slowly got up and faced a wall. "you found something didn't you?" asked Gajeel. Natsu nodded as Jellal said "What. What did you find Natsu?" "Whoever took her isn't going to get any mercy from me" he said quietly making everyone nervous. "This bastard." His hands balled into fists. " HE RAPED HER!"

Everyone gasped as he pounded his fists into the wall. "Her legs were bleeding, so I looked and that's when I found out. This guy is going to burn. I'll make him ashes." They all stood there understanding his rage but didn't know what to say as Natsu turned and put his back against the wall. "Is Layla still with Levy?" Jellal asked. "Yeah, no way am I letting her see her mother like this" answered Natsu. "Gajeel, call her and let her know we found Lucy but that she needs to not tell Layla right now" said Erza as Gajeel went to a corner to call. Another hour went by before the nurse that came earlier walked in. They all stood up instantly. "How is she?" Erza asked immediately. The nurse got a saddened look on her face as she said "She's in rough shape..if you hadn't gotten her here when you two did..I'm not sure she would have survived." Their breaths caught in their throats as she continued "we gave her some sedatives for the pain so she's asleep right now but I suggest only one of you right now" They all looked at Natsu who the nurse gave a sympathetic smile too as she had him follow her leaving the others. His heart skipped a beat as he came into the room and looked at her. "Lucy" he said quietly. "Whoever did this to her..it looks like they didn't want her to survive..but she fought and held out" he smirked as he said "that's my girl" "I'll leave you two be." "Thank you..for taking care of her" She gave him a warm smile and said "your welcome" as she left closing the door behind her. He took the seat next to her and grabbed her hand bringing it to his face. "I am so sorry this happened to you baby. I swear I am going to find the dirtbag who did this. God Lucy" tears stung his eyes as he held her hand to his cheek. He sat there waiting for her to wake up as a couple hours went by.

When she started to stir, he sat up quickly as he heard her say something. "No, no, get away from me!" she turned her head left and right. "Lucy, your okay" he told her. "NO!, AHHHHHHHH" "LUCY!" Her eyes flashed open as she looked at Natsu with a blank expression. Putting his hands on her shoulders, he calmly said "It's me baby, your safe" "AHHHHHH. NO NO, NATSU" she screamed putting her hands to her face leaving Natsu very confused. "Luce?" "Dddon'ttt look please" He tried to reach to touch her but flinched and cowered away making him stop. "Baby" She curled up as much as she could shaking. His mouth hung open, he had no idea how to comfort her when she didn't even want him to touch her. Furious he stormed out as she cried to herself ashamed. "I'm sorry Natsu" she said to herself. "It's not you Luce. it will never be" he thought as he threw open the door to the waiting room pissed off. "Natsu!, how is she?" Erza spat out. Angrily he said "this bastard has traumatized her. I can't even get touch her" They all gave a look of surprise. "When I tried to comfort her, she…she flinched at the very sight of me. She was afraid I would hurt her". "I'm sure it's because of everything she went through" Jellal tried to reason before Natsu roared "NO!" making back up a step as he looked at them with a intimidating glance. "This is way more then just trauma. She has never flinched at me. Not once. No this son of a bitch..he did something to her. He destroyed something in her..I saw it when she looked at me" He started growling as Erza went to reach for him when Gajeel put a hand to her shoulder shaking his head.

"You need to calm down Natsu now" Jellal said firmly. "Don't you fucking dare tell me to calm down." "Natsu" "Gray, I swear if you touch me I'm going to hurt you, Back off" "What do you want us to do?" "Stay here, I'm sure she will be asking to see you guys soon. That's not a suggestion, that's an order" he said as he headed to the door and walked out. "Do we follow?" asked Gray. "We can't replied Jellal and Erza. "Why the hell not" sniped Gajeel. "Because despite his anger, he is our leader and disobeying him would be disrespectful to him." Jellal explained. "Grrr..doesn't mean we have to like it" argued Gajeel grumpily. Jellal and Gray chuckled. "No, we don't but we chose to follow him. He didn't force us to stay .The least we could do is follow his orders. Jellal is right. We just have to wait for him to come back" Gray said as he tried to lighten the tension. "Come on let's go see Lucy" he suggested as they nodded and followed. He walked up to the nurse at the desk and politely asked " can we see her?" she nodded her head as he walked away from the desk and they all entered her room. All of their faces turned white except Gray's for he had already seen the rough shape she was in. "God..Lucy" Erza struggled saying. "Erza" she said still barely above a whisper. Rushing over, she pulled Lucy into her arms. "We're here for you Lucy" She wrapped her arms around her as she started sobbing. Feeling Lucy shake, she gently rubbed her back. "Lucy, can you" Gajeel attempted to ask before getting a death stare from Jellal who mouthed no to him shutting him up.

"Dddoes he hate me?" she stuttered. Pulling away slightly so she could see Lucy's face, she said "who?" "Natsu..." she said depressed. "Absolutely not Lucy. He could never hate you" " he stormed off" she said as her voice held nothing but sadness breaking their hearts. "It wasn't because of you. I promise you. He was mad at whoever did this to you" Lucy shuttered remembering. "Where is he?" "We don't know…he got pissed and went off somewhere" explained Erza. "He wont find him..not unless he wants to be found" she thought grimly. "Do I mind if check you?" Erza asked gently. She didn't want to bring Lucy more pain then she was already in. "All of you go" she told the guys sternly. Understanding, they left then it was just the girls. Lucy nodded as Erza pulled the blanket covering her. She had to put her hand over her mouth to keep from screaming. Her lower body was completely covered in knife cuts and she saw the bandages on her arms. She shuttered at the thought of her legs as she kept going. The anger everyone felt was rising as Erza looked at them and her private area. She put a single finger to it making Lucy try to scoot back. Erza looked at her wide eyed as Lucy's eyes confirmed what she thought. She knew Natsu wasn't lying with how hostile he acted but she needed to see it. The look of shame in Lucy's face tore her apart. She quickly covered Lucy back up with the blanket as she grabbed hold of it and brought it to her chin crying.