"You should be able to move again now." Midnight said to Lucy, opening the door for Angel, who promptly grabbed Lucy's hand and pulled her out of the room.
"I'll see you tomorrow." He added quickly before letting the door shut.
They stood in the dark hallway.
"Come with me, Lucy Heartfilia." She said tugging her through another door on their left. Lucy cringed slightly at her full name but was in too much of a confused daze to do anything anymore.
As they stepped into the light blue painted room Lucy stumbled slightly on the fluffy white carpet, bumping into Angel slightly. She didn't seem to notice though as she walked over to large white wooden wardrobe wedged in between two shiny chests of draws.
Lucy's hand was dropped as Angel opened the wardrobe exposing many dull similar outfits hung along a series of rails. The blonde stared at her now empty hand for a moment before turning to walk back out of the door. Her mind had gone again. She felt strange… like she wasn't really in her body anymore, everything was all fuzzy and floaty. She reached out and curled her pale fingers around the door handle.
"Here! This one would be great!" Angel said swiftly turning around.
Lucy stood, frozen.
"Lucy."
"Hmm."
"Turn around and put these on."
She turned automatically, nodding.
Angel threw a black costume with white trimmings at her. (Basically Edolas Lucy's outfit).
"T-Thanks." Lucy mumbled barley even looking at the clothes as Angel made her way out of the room.
"I'll wait out here." She said closing the door.
Lucy shut her eyes and took a deep breathe.
'No more crying… no more crying.' She thought.
A white dresser with a giant mirror in the corner of the room caught her eye as she ripped of the tattered greyish robe she'd obviously been put in whilst she was knocked out. She stared at herself in the new clothes and sighed. She didn't look like herself… though she never really did…
The blonde looked around the small room, searching for a way out, but the only door was the one they came in and there were no windows to speak of… looks like she wasn't escaping right now.
'Maybe I could go with Natsu?... Hmm Natsu, he seems nice… and he's actually pretty cute.' She grinned to herself evilly, but was knocked out of her thoughts by Angel banging on the door.
"C-Come in." she said blankly.
Angel swung open the door holding a new set of handcuffs and a new brown sack to shove on poor Lucy's head again.
"Great." Angel said, lacking any enthusiasm as she placed the handcuffs on Lucy's wrists and brought out the dreaded sack.
Again, she was passed to another pair of hands, which she assumed to be a guards, and was dragged back to Natsu's cell.
Her eyes were uncovered as she was pushed sharply into the little cell where Natsu was pacing up and down. His eyes lit up when he saw her.
"Luce!" he exclaimed, "You okay?" he asked her.
She nodded, 'No more crying!' she thought.
"What happened?" The pinkette said sitting on the blue mat laid out on the floor, magically another one had appeared next to it where Lucy had flopped down.
Lucy explained everything that had happened, still confused about all this herself.
*After a while of explaining*
"My mother had celestial magic… and apparently I do too…" Lucy mumbled, not really believing it at all!
"Well yeah, duh!" Natsu said, "It's obvious."
"I-It is?!" she frowned, running her fingers through her golden hair.
"Yeah you can kinda sense it… you really never knew?" he said.
"No." Lucy replied with her head in her hands.
"Well I wasn't born with magic, my dad taught me!" Natsu smiled.
"Really? Why would he do that?!" Lucy said.
"Huh? Why not? Magic's awesome!"
"It's looked down upon where I come from."
"What?!" He screeched, "Why?!"
She sighed, "I don't know… people don't understand it so they don't like it, I guess."
Natsu frowned, "That's not right."
"It's how it is… I went to a private school and I didn't have many friends at all, in fact I only had one… she was really smart and never stopped reading, we'd do everything together. Every lunchtime we'd go and read and eat together on the roof, until one day I, It's stupid but, well I was trying to touch the sky by leaning on the edge of the railings, and tripped over my lunch box and managed to fall over the rails… and, and she saved me. W-With her magic…" She told him.
His eyes went wide, "Really? What happened next?"
"She was expelled and her whole family was considered a disgrace… it was my fault." Lucy said sadly.
"And you never knew she had magic?!" Natsu gasped.
"No…" Lucy mumbled.
"So she was your only friend?" Natsu said quietly.
"Yeah, I never really fit in with the others... but she accepted me, and it was pretty much us two against the world after that."
"Well count me in! What was her name?"
"Her name was Levy."
Natsu's eyes bulged.
"Levy McGarden." Lucy said, a ghost of a smile on her lips.