Ch. 65: Pyro

Day: 65

Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail.

Genre: Romance, Adventure, Sci-fi

Summary: Lucy is the daughter of wealthy businessman Jude Heartfilia. But is it possible her father is harboring a dark secret? (Mutant AU)

"Stay here, Lucy." Jude Heartfilia said as he adjusted his tie, not even glancing in his daughter's direction. "I've got some business to attend to."

Lucy just nodded in response. The seventeen-year-old was quite used to the near-neglective behavior of her father - in fact, the only reason she knew it wasn't normal was because of the novels she treasured so. Her mother had died when she was four, so all memories of a doting parent had long since vanished into oblivion. Sure, maybe she was a bit bitter, but it was only a few years until she was free. So, for now, she dealt with the odd business-obsessed man that her father was the same way she dealt with all other unpleasantries - by putting a book between her and it.

So, now she sat on this plush couch in the corner of her living room, she did exactly that.

"Lucy," Jude said as he opened the front door. "Don't go into the basement." When he got a mute nod of acknowledgement from his daughter, he walked out and closed the door behind him. The first thing Lucy had learned when she had been forced to move in with her father - thanks to her mother's untimely death - was that she was never to go down there. The endless possibilities of what could be down in that basement constantly tugged at the back of the blonde's mind. Her mother had called her a dreamer; her father called her absent-minded.

Lucy called herself curious.

So, as a curious citizen, it was technically her responsibility to find out what was hidden in the basement, right? It could be any number of things - maybe her father was actually a murderer who hid the bodies of his victims down there, or maybe he was building a weapon that would bring about armageddon! Lucy bit her lip. Yep, she absolutely had to find out what her father was hiding!

She got up from the couch, placing her book down where she was sitting, and made her way to the door she knew led to the basement. Once she got there, she inspected the keypad with narrowed eyes. Lucy took Advanced Engineering in school, so she knew a few tricks when it came things like this.

Lucy pulled a bobby-pin out of her hair, and wedged it into the slight gap between the two pieces of plastic that made up the circuit board. With a soft crack, the top came off, revealing the circuitry inside. The top hung precariously off the wall, connected to it's other half by nothing but a few wires.

Ignoring the top, Lucy scrutinized the circuit board. There were many wires tangled in a seemingly random order, connecting input sources. But Lucy knew better than to think that there was no purpose to the wires. She looked over the layout of the schematics once more, then grabbed one blue wire delicately between two fingers, and pulled. It came out with a soft click.

Lucy tested the handle, and the door swung smoothly open. She pumped a hand in the air victoriously before continuing downward.

The stairs down to the basement creaked as Lucy stepped on them. After a seeming eternity of stairs, stairs, and more stairs, the narrow hallway opened into a bigger room.

Lucy's eyes filled with horror at what she saw there.

It was a boy, about her age, submerged in a strange yellowish liquid that made Lucy's stomach do a slow roll. He had strange pink hair that floated about his head like a halo, and his skin was patterned with something that looked strangely like scales.

And his startling green eyes were fixed directly on Lucy's brown ones.

Ta-da! I do love AU's! I will definitely be doing a sequel (and maybe a prequel?) to yesterday's story. Both of the past two chapters were awesome to write :3

Replies:

Guest: Do you mean AU oneshots? Because I don't really make up new genres… just alternate universes. Either way, thanks for the compliment!

NielsenKat: Thank you! I'm definitely writing a sequel to the last story :) It got so much reaction, I was honestly astounded!

Nightcore's Lover: 0.0 I'm not quite sure about writing a full story while this is still in progress! But I'm glad you liked it!

Alyss Hatter: You might just get that prequel! And as for why Lucy called herself Jackal, you'll have to wait and see! ;)

Sugarsugarrush: And you're getting a sequel! Thank's for the review :)