Aaand I'm finally back with Chapter 5! Sorry for the long wait, loads of stuff has been happening, and I also haven't been very inspired, but we just recently hit 3,000 views, so I decided to write some more for you guys!
Lucy adored the two little dragon slayers. Wendy had come to think of her as an older sister very quickly. Gajeel had been happy to relinquish his leadership for the most part, but in some cases he was less happy about it. When she delegated the jobs out when preparing camp or meals, he often grumbled. He didn't like accepting authority figures, but he did respect Lucy a great deal. She had taken them under her wing for no reason other than the goodness of her heart.
It wasn't necessarily the first thing you would expect the daughter of Acnologia to do. On the other hand, even he had a soft side. Few ever saw it, but it did exist, and in it laid his heart, full to the brim with love for Celeste and for Lucy.
So when Lucy left Gajeel and Wendy at their campsite for ten minutes while she looked for dinner, none of them expected her to come back to strangers manhandling them into bags. Lucy had found a wild boar and herded it back to the campsite to kill. She hadn't wanted to have to lug it, as that was needless work. As it happened, it was a good thing she hadn't killed it. When she came near to the clearing, she heard sounds of a struggle and immediately panicked. If she had been lugging a carcass, she would have dropped it immediately, alerting them to her presence. That would not be optimal.
She struggled to keep her head, then decided on a plan. She sent the boar charging through the campsite. It gave her an opportunity to attack the fools who would hurt her charges. The fools were obviously inexperienced. They dropped the bags that presumably held their supplies, along with the two younger dragon slayers, to the ground and froze the moment they saw the boar. Lucy used a magic she had learned years ago, telekinesis, to collect the bags and deposit them in a safer location. Then she set about using one of her more powerful magics. Banned in Fiore, although Lucy had no knowledge of it, this particular spell of chaos magic was nearly impossible for most. Even highly skilled chaos mages could rarely pull it off. Being a dragon slayer helped her greatly here, however. She had sufficient power and had been trained by the master himself.
This meant that when she whispered the words "Black Mind" with her hands resting by the bounty hunters' heads, they went insane. They would live in the forest for the rest of their lives-although they would likely not be long. Dangerous creatures roamed the land and food was not much of a concern to the broken mind. Few under Black Mind ever lived more than a week under its effects. Chaos and death were often synonymous. That was simply too bad for those who hurt chaos.
She packed up the rest of their supplies, transformed into her half-dragon form, and left that forest with her two little slayers.
They would not return for a very long time.
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