Chapter 4
Sai and Kesain had no trouble finding Lucy's apartment, and just like ghosts they walked through the wall and hid in the kitchen when they heard footsteps approaching them.
Lucy walked into the kitchen humming a soft tune as she reached for a glass and filled it with water and drank it. When she was about to go back to her room Kesain grabbed her and covered her mouth when she was about to scream. Lucy bit Kesain's hand causing him to let her go.
"NATSU!" Lucy screamed giving Kesain a Lucy Kick. Natsu came rushing as soon as he heard her scream and saw Lucy fighting Kesain. When she ws about to run towards Natsu Kesain pulled her back and held Lucy close to him with his sword pointed at her throat and his free hand caressing her thighs.
"N...Natsu." Lucy cried.
"Let her go!" Natsu growled, his whole body engulfed in flames. Natsu rushed towards him and as he did Kesain pricked her neck making it bleed a little.
"Ah ah ah Salamander...come any closer and i'll kill her." Natsu could see that he was serious so kept his distance.
"What do you want with Lucy?"
"I don't want her i'm just following orders."
"Who's orders?"
"My Mistress of course!" he snickered tightening his grip on Lucy.
"And who is this Mistress?"
" She's the Master of Shadow Haven the dark guild you stole the amulet from."
"Oh...but it was empty..."
"That's because you went into the Warehouse!"
"So didn't go on a walk?"
"Nope that was two days ago, nice soothing walk you should try it...anyways I am gonna leave now with blondie here so bye." Kesain ran through the door with Lucy and down the street.
Natsu ran after him and when he had caught up, Sai who had been hiding, tackled him and blew a poison dart on his arm him causing him to collapse.
"NATSU!" Lucy screamed, tears pouring down her face and her eyes full of fear.
"L...Lucy..." Natsu said weakly as he went unconscious.
-The next day-
"Where am I?" Natsu sniffed the air and looked around at the familiar surroundings. 'I must be in the infirmary.' he thought. Then he gasped remembering what happened last night. "Crap Lucy I totally forgot I gotta go get her back." Natsu panicked as he jumped out of bed and into the guild hall, bumping into Erza and Gray.
"Just where do you think your going?" Erza said blocking him.
Natsu growled and pushed her out of the way which caught the attention of everyone. Gray swiftly shifted to the other side of the room for safety in fear of Erza's anger. Erza sighed deeply and calmed down.
"I gotta go...I don't have time for this." Natsu continued heading towards the door.
"Natsu!" Master Makarov called to the fire mage, "What's wrong child?"
"Ji-chan...I gotta go get Lucy...they took her and ..and I just really need to get her back!"
"Natsu slow down you're not making sense, what happened to Lucy?" Erza asked as she let Natsu sit in the middle of the room.
"Ok...I went over to Lucy's apartment like I always do and after we took a shower we went to bed then Lucy got up to get some water, I rolled over and noticed she was missing the I heard her screaming from the kitchen and when I went to see what happened some guy with long white hair had a sword at her neck and told me if I came any closer he'd kill her..." he trailed off, "So I stood there and asked him what wanted with Lucy and he told me some Mistress wanted her, he was from some dark guild, then he ran off with her and someone shot me with something and I blacked out."
"Did they say which guild they were from?" Wendy asked.
"Oh yea Shadow Haven!"
"That's the same dark guild we went to." Gray stated.
"I remember the guy saying something about the place we went too was some Warehouse." Natsu explained then he got up and started walking towards the door.
"Natsu are you okay?" Asuka asked running to the dragon slayer who slowly nodded in response. "Don't worry I know you'll bring Lucy back and then you'll be destructive and happy like you always are!" she hugged Natsu.
"Yeah." he hugged her back.
-At Shadow Haven's Head quarters-
"Let me go...when Natsu get's here he's gonna kill all of you." Lucy shouted from the room she was in.
"OH MY GOSH WOMAN WOULD YOU SHUT UP!" the guard shouted obviously tired of Lucy's blabbing. 'God she's annoying!' he thought.
The guard left when he saw Mistress approaching the room with Kesain and Sai and a girl named Estelle. They all entered and Mistress stooped down to Lucy and played with a strand of her hair.
"Don't touch me!" Lucy pulled away from Mistress causing her to get a slap.
"I don't know who you think you are but just know that I own you now Miss Heartfillia and you no longer belong to Fairy Tail." she growled.
"As if I would do what you say!"
Mistress simply kicked her to the corner of the room, "Oh you will, because if you don't you'll be putting your friends in danger...and i'm pretty sure you wouldn't like that...would you?"
"I'll never betray Fairy Tail!"
"Oh?...Kesain, Sai i'll leave her to you guys, have your way with her but just don't kill her." Mistress told then as she left the room with Estelle.
-Back at the Guild-
Natsu grabbed Happy and was about to leave the guild when Erza stopped him. "If you think you're gonna search for Lucy alone without us your joking!"
"But..."
"But nothing she our friend to you know!" Erza said grabbing Gray from his current seat, "However we should start tomorrow, you should head home and get some rest.
"It's still early." Natsu whined.
"It's noon Flame freak!" Gray shouted, "Besides I've got a date with Juvia, so I gotta go." He left the guild making sure he brushed Natsu's shoulder.
Natsu sighed and looked at the sleeping exceed on his shoulder, Erza was right he was exhausted and tired maybe he should head home and along with Happy headed home and slept soundly throughout the day.
-5:00 am-
Lucy dragged herself into her room, she had just reached home form being tortured. She had multiple severe bruises and cuts. She couldn't believe what she had done, she sided with a dark guild in order to protect her friends. As she close her door she turned on the light then came face to face with none other than Natsu Dragneel.
"L...Lucy?" he uttered surprisingly, "Lucy what the hell happened to you!?"
"Natsu please...just leave, i'm really tired okay."
"Not until you tell me why you look like...like that!"
"Natsu it's none of your business!" she snapped at him.
"NONE OF MY BUSINESS!?...YOU GET KIDNAPPED, HAVE EVERYONE WORRYING ABOUT YOU, YOU FINALLY RETURN LOOKING LIKE YOU'VE BEEN STAMPEDED BY VULCANS AND IT'S NONE OF MY BUSINESS?!"
Lucy couldn't take it anymore, she was bloody,tired and sleepy plus she needed a shower and Natsu wasn't making her feel any better. "Would you just SHUT UP AND GET OUT MY ROOM!" she shouted angrily taking a chair and swatted Natsu (yes swatted!) through her window breaking the glass. Happy who had been watching the whole situation was terrified (who wouldn't be I mean the infamous Salamander just got swatted like a fly by...LUCY) flew to a badly cut Natsu.
"Natsu are you okay?" he asked worriedly.
"Yeah, don't worry pal." he responded. He shakily stood and the two went to the guild, by the time they reached it was 7:00 (they walked really slow).
Natsu opened the guild doors and everyone was shocked at the sight before them.
"Oh my gosh, Natsu what happened to you?!" Mira cried out rushing to the dragon slayer. Wendy immediately tended to him.
"Natsu where did get these cuts from?" Erza asked, but Natsu never replied. "Natsu I asked-"
"Lucy..." he interrupted her sentence, "I got them from Lucy..."