"I told you, I don't know anything"
"And I told you, I don't believe you. So start talking."
This back and forth had been going on for what seemed like hours and every response that Lucy gave was rewarded with more pain. Everytime the edges of vision began to darken and she found herself losing consciousness, terror invaded her body and she was jerked back to alertness. The frustrating thing about the whole situation, other than being in unimaginable pain, was that she actually had no knowledge about anything related to Lumen Histoire. All she knew was that it was a type of magic that only Fairy Tail had. Even if she did know, like hell would she tell them, so she could understand why they didn't believe her. It didn't make her less pissed though.
"All of this can be over if you give me some information. Just a little bit." the man causing Lucy so much pain said. He hadn't even had the decency to give her his name before he started his relentless torture. She supposed it wasn't necessary for him to do so but damn she wished she knew his name, just so she could curse it. Lucy was brought out of her thoughts as the man landed a hard hit to her side with the bat he had taken to using. She glanced at his face to see that he was starting to become bored and agitated with her reluctance to talk about her guilds greatest kept secret. The bat was suddenly flung across the room and the man growled in resentment. He took a breath and then turned back towards her.
"Fine. Don't talk to me. You'll wish you did soon enough." With that, the man turned towards the door, his jacket swishing through the air and he closed the door with great force behind him. The room was silent apart from Lucy's heavy breaths that she forced herself to take. She had to concentrate on breathing to ensure she didn't fall into a panic attack. One was already too many for one day let alone two. Unfortunately, no matter how hard she focused, it seemed a panic attack was indeed pending. The door swung open but Lucy was too focused on calming herself down as much as possible to notice.
"Pathetic." a female voice spoke. Lucy wished she could breath so that she could tell the woman what she thought of her but even being dissed couldn't stop her from panicking. Breaths wheezed in and out of Lucy's body, he fingernails digging into the skin of her palms as the panic attack took over her. Black spots swam over her vision and her ears began to ring as she stared at the floor below her. Her body began to itch and she tried to force her arms to move enough that she could attend to those itches but to her dismay she was too tightly chained. Lucy's body shook like a leaf in the wind and she could tell that if she didn't start breathing properly soon then she'd pass out. Although that would probably be a good way to not feel the next round of torture.
Suddenly, Lucy stilled. Not a single breath left her body as she stood in complete shock. That was until the breath was allowed to leave her once again. After taking a few deep breaths, Lucy found that her breathing back to normal. Confused, she looked up at the figure in front of her and saw that it was Terra. She was smiling at her. She wasn't doing anything but standing there and smiling at Lucy. Boy was it creepy. Lucy snarled before snapping at the dark mage.
"What?! I'm not an animal in a zoo that you can just gawk at?!"
"Oh no." Terra giggled, the noise sounding wrong coming from her "This is way more fun."
Lucy stared at Terra, anger filling her body now that she was no longer panicking. Although she was still unsure about how the panic attack had be halted. As if by magic, Terra seemed to know exactly what Lucy was thinking.
"You can thank me for calming down whatever that shit was by the way." she said, giggling once again. Lucy grimaced at her before letting her head drop once again, not wanting to look at the smug woman anymore. Terra clearly didn't like being ignored because in a flash she was directly in front of Lucy, pulling her chin up in her clawed hand.
"Look at me when I'm talking to you rude bitch. Don't you want to know how I helped you?" Terra said inquisitively, not understanding why Lucy wasn't interested in what she had to say. The celestial mage huffed and tried to turn her head away from the ghastly woman that was antagonising her. Again, Terra yanked Lucy's head back to look at her. Lucy just looked at her expectantly, knowing that she was fighting a losing battle. This woman needed attention like a drug and Lucy was going to have to give it to her if she wanted to avoid being hurt more. Terra smiled, pleased to have gotten her own way.
"I'm an Air Mage, I can control people's breathing and the air around them. Shall I demonstrate?" Without giving Lucy the chance to answer, Terra raised her hand towards Lucy, keeping up the smile on her face. Lucy stood in confusion for a moment, waiting for something to happen. When it did, Lucy would've fallen to her knees if she wasn't held up by the chains. She pulled and yanked at the chains as she tried to tear into her throat. It burned. Lucy had been on the receiving end of Natsu's fire once or twice when she had been too close to an enemy and while he always apologised profusely, it did hurt. The pain Lucy was currently feeling wasn't unlike the feeling of Natsu's fire licking against her skin except it was wreaking havoc in her throat. Her airways cut off and it felt as though she hadn't breathed in hours. Honestly? Lucy felt as though she was dying and in that moment, she wished she was.
She couldn't take much more of this. She needed to get out, fast.
Not a particularly long chapter but you know. Lucy is coming to the end of her tether but will she keep being strong and get herself out before her guild mates come and rescue her? I guess you'll see. Thanks for reading, favouriting, following and reviewing. You're all the reason why I have continued to post this story even when I had a bit of writers block this week. For those of you wondering, this story is set before the reveal of Lumen Histoire and it will be different to how it it canonically. See you next time!