EDITED
A/N: This chapter starts directly after the last one. I really suck at writing fighting scenes, but I did my best, so if you have any revisions feel free to tell me and I'll make them if I think they'll help. Thank you!
All rights to Hiro Mashima.
Chapter 2: Hearts Kill
The Celestials reached the Oración Seis headquarters five minutes later.
"How shall we proceed Lady Summoner?" Aries asked.
"Front door!" Lucy cheered childishly, sitting on the edge of a roof with her six members standing behind her. "Capricorn, Cancer, and Virgo get the outer guards. Taurus you're with me. We're going in through the front door. Aries and Aquarius go in the back and wait for my signal, Cancer will go through the back door to provide back up when he's done with the perimeter. Virgo and Cap will come find us in the front." Lucy ordered. The six Zodiac nodded in understanding, "Alright. Let's go!" They all sprang away to their designated missions. Lucy and Taurus landed in front of the door.
"Ready?" Lucy grinned darkly and flipped up her hood. Taurus did the same and his axe held hidden in the folds of his cloak. BAM, BAM, BAM! Lucy pounded on the door. There were footsteps and the door opened.
"How can I help you?" the man yawned.
"You could scream," Lucy said as she pulled her famous twin silver and gold pistols from her belt and leveled them at the guy's face, "Celestial has come a knocking." She grinned and shot. The shots were Aries's and Aquarius's signal. Lucy and Taurus stepped into the mafia base and were confronted with around fifty surprised mobsters. "Yo!" Lucy cheered as she stuck the pistols in her belt and unsheathed her sword.
"FUCK!" One of the guys yelled, "IT'S LADY SUMMONER AND HER ZODIAC!" Everyone else looked scared, but drew their guns anyways.
"Taurus?" Lucy asked and Taurus hefted his axe.
"Ready," he rumbled.
"GO!" Lucy cheered and darted forwards a blur of black, silver, and gold. She moved incredibly fast darting through the mobsters killing every single one she passed. Two minutes later they were all dead. Just as the last one fell Capricorn and Virgo stepped through the door.
"Virgo you're with me. Cap, Taurus clean out the mobsters and come up when you finish," Lucy ordered as she sheathed her sword. Lucy and Virgo dashed down the hall and up the first stairs they found. They ended up on the second floor in an open room filled with mobsters pointing guns at them.
"Oh dear," Lucy said in a false worried tone, "I'm afraid the don't like me very much. Such a shame." She grinned and then pulled out her semi-automatic. "Night, night boys," and before any shots by the Oración Seis mobsters were fired, Lucy pulled the trigger and sprayed them with bullets taking out most of them.
"Finish them," Lucy ordered in a cold tone of voice, her personality becoming frigid. Virgo nodded and dashed out swinging her chain balls, killing the rest of the mobsters. By the time they were finished, Lucy and Virgo were splattered with their enemies' blood.
"Onwards!" Lucy cheered like a child as she slung the gun back over her back, "We have thirty minutes before our party gets crashed!" She and Virgo went up the last staircase. The third floor was where the core members lived. As soon as the two girls reached the third floor, the five other Zodiac appeared behind them.
"All mobsters eliminated," Capricorn reported, bowing.
"Great, now, from what I hear there are six members elite members and their leader. I get the leader. You all take one down. No screwing up we have thirty minutes," Lucy ordered.
"Yes Lady Summoner," the six Zodiac said in unison.
"Prepare for war level three," Lucy grinned with a mad glint in her eyes and reloaded her pistols and semi-automatic. The Zodiac all smiled darkly and reloaded their weapons. "Off we go. Shoot for the stars and pass the heavens." Lucy intoned in a terrifyingly cold, dark tone of voice.
"Shoot for the stars and pass the heavens," the Zodiac echoed all turning slightly dark. Then they flashed off to the one room on the third floor. Lucy kicked the door opened and they were met with the six core members and leader of Oración Seis.
"I never thought you'd make it this far," a man in a green militaristic suit said.
"You severely underestimated me then, Zero," Lucy grinned, baring her face. The Zodiac did the same. The Oración Seis members did a collective gasp.
"S-so Lucy Heartfilia is the feared Lady Summoner," Zero stuttered slightly, trying not show his fear at the darkness and pure evil that seemed to radiate from Lucy and her followers.
"How lovely, you know my name," Lucy smiled sweetly, then her face turned dark, "now die."
As if that was a cue, the Zodiac flashed forwards and each engaged a member. Lucy tackled Zero, a knife already in her right hand. She stabbed at him, but he managed to roll to the left just in time and Lucy only nicked him. Zero pulled out a knife of his own and stabbed at Lucy, she jumped back and it just missed her,
"You're gonna have to do better than that sweetheart," Lucy goaded. Zero growled and pulled a hidden lever on the ground, a huge sword popped out. "Pulling out the big guns already? I feel so special," Lucy smiled and unhooked her whip, cracking it against the floor. She took the semi-automatic off her shoulder and set it on the ground behind her. Lucy took a knife out of her boot and held it in her left hand and crouched, ready. Zero launched himself at her at an incredible speed. Lucy wavered to the side and stuck her knife in his side as he flew past her.
"Fucking bitch," Zero groaned as he yanked the knife out of his side. He glared at Lucy who snapped her whip and grabbed another knife from her boot. Then Lucy attacked, she was a blur her whip snapping out and knife flashed. Zero could barely dodge her, then he was sliced on the side. The face. The leg. Finally, a knife sunk up to the hilt in his chest.
"Wh-wh-what?" He looked down in confusion. There was a knife hilt protruding from his chest. He looked up, black encroaching on his vision. The last thing he saw was Lucy's demonic, blood spattered face and he died in fear. All around the pair the Oración Seis lackeys fell, dead. Lucy collected her discard gun and knives. She wiped them clean on Zero's chest then unhooked a special key from her key ring. It was black and slight larger than all the other keys. The end was a knife blade and the handle had the Celestial's gang symbol on it. Lucy stabbed it into Zero's chest and stood. She straightened all her gear, then flipped her hood back over her face. Her faithful followers imitated her movements and followed her to the window.
"We have two minutes before Fairy Tail comes Lady Summoner," Aries informed her lady softly.
"Well should we leave before or as they come?" Lucy asked mischievously.
"As they come," Aquarius flashed a rare grinned at her and Lucy smiled back.
"To the roof then!" Lucy said cheerfully, slid out the window, and climbed to the roof. Shortly after all she climbed up, Zodiac that were on the mission joined her on the roof and they settled in to wait. Lucy was sitting and dangling her legs over the edge with her faithful followers standing behind her. They made for quite the sight, what with their fluttering cloaks, faces shrouded in shadow, and glimpses of the metal of the weapons between pieces of cloth. After a short time Fairy Tail came into sight.
"Fairy ho!" Lucy called out, quiet enough that Fairy Tail could not hear her. Fairy Tail made quite the procession as they paraded towards Oración Seis with all their members fully outfitted.
"They're not very strong if they need that many people to destroy this puny mafia," Aquarius scoffed.
"Appearances can be deceiving Aquarius, just take our lady," Capricorn reminded her, "besides they probably did not all grow up in this life as we have."
"Shut up," Lucy ordered as Fairy Tail stopped in front of the building. "Hello Fairy Tail," she called down to them when the group stopped at the bottom of the building.
"Hello," came an answer from a small man in a white cloak, "might I inquire as to who you are?"
Lucy answered in a light tone of voice, "I thought you were supposed to give a name before requesting one."
"I am Makarov Dreyar, Master of Fairy Tail and this," he gestured behind him, "is Fairy Tail. Now I ask again, who are you?"
"No one of great importance," Lucy assured him then she popped herself over the edge. Fairy Tail took a collective gasp. Lucy landed with slightly bent knees. She straightened and took in the guild in front of her. They had fine equipment, but the Celestials had better. They looked to be in good shape, but the Celestials were better. Lucy heard six consecutive soft thumps behind her signaling the landing of her six comrades.
"Well it was nice seeing you Fairy Tail, but I must go now." Lucy bowed and turned on her heel before sprinting home. She had no doubts that her loyal Zodiac were following.
Sorry loyal Leo, Lucy thought as she ran, I'll bring you home soon.
Fairy Tail
After the seven cloak-clad figures dashed away faster than most of Fairy Tail could run, Makarov turned back to the door of Oración Seis and stopped dead in his tracks. There, on the door, was the sign of the Lady Summoner.
"Oh dear Mavis," Makarov whispered with wide eyes, "that was her. Lady Summoner."
"What, Master?" a scarlet haired woman asked, making no move to step forwards. She was dressed in armor and was carrying about six or seven different swords.
"That Erza," Master turned to the scarlet haired woman, "was Lady Summoner and six of her retainers. I'm sure of it."
"How?" she asked, lowering her voice. Makarov only pointed to the door. Everyone in the guild followed his finger and saw the door emblazoned with the three keys.
"Oh Mavis," Gildarts choked.
"Wellp, we might as well go check it out," a salmon haired boy said stepping forwards.
"I agree with Natsu, Master," Erza said stoically, "we ought to go check for any clues as to her identity."
"Very well," Master nodded and then he gave his orders, "Loke, Erza, Natsu, Gray, Gildarts, Lisanna, and Mira come with me. We will go check the inside. The rest of you check the perimeter. Any clues are to be reported immediately."
Everyone bowed slightly before hurrying to complete their assigned missions. Makarov swung the door open tentatively and stepped inside. The seven Fairies followed him. There was a man on the floor with bullet holes in his head and stomach. Loke smiled slightly recognizing the work of his mistress's twin pistols and the trademark shot that signaled the start of an invasion. Oh how he longed to hear that noise again. Further down the hall in a circular room there were about fifty dead mobsters on the ground. About a quarter of them had huge axe wounds while the rest had stab wounds in the chest or throat. Body parts were strewn haphazardly around the room and blood covered the floor and walls.
"Mavis," Erza breathed. Lisanna and Mira paled. Loke recognized the work of Taurus and his mistress's sword. She did well, Loke thought, his chest swelling with pride. Master and Gildarts had blank faces with a hint of fear in their eyes. They swept the first floor and Loke recognized the work of Aquarius, Aries, Cancer, and Capricorn respectively. What about Virgo, he thought worriedly, Lucy always brings her on raids.
The second floor had room at the top of the staircase filled with dead mobsters. Most of them were full of bullet holes but a few had crushed skulls or torsos. Once again blood seemed to coat every available surface and few organs and pieces of brains were scattered here and there. Ah, Loke thought, she must have been on perimeter then met up with Lucy here. On this floor Natsu and Gray's faces also paled and even Erza was looking a little sick. Gildarts and Master looked fine.
The third floor had only seven dead people on the ground. But there was evidence of a fight. Blood was spattered here and there on the floor. One of the guys was missing his leg and a girl in a white cloak, her head. Eight Fairies stopped frozen in shock in the doorway, but Loke hurried forwards checking all the corpses for the black key he knew would be stuck in the chest of the leader. He found it in the chest of the corpse in the dead center of the room. How perfectly ironic, Loke smiled to himself. Then he check the symbols on the gold, silver, and blue keys on the handle of the black key. Sure enough there was his symbol on the gold key. Plue's symbol was on the silver key, and Hermes's symbol was on the blue key. It was saying that she'd call him home in the 10th month of the year with a message through Plue. Perfect.
"Loke what are you doing?" Erza finally called in a hoarse voice.
"Searching for clues," he replied honestly.
"Did you find anything?" She asked, not taking a step into the room. None of them did.
"Yup," Loke jogged over to them and handed Erza the black key, he didn't need it anymore, he got the message, "this was stuck in the chest of the corpse in the middle of the room." Erza examined it and passed it to Gildarts before she turned back to him.
"This," she gestured to the room, "doesn't bother you?"
"Nope," Loke grinned, "they had it coming and I've seen worse. Way worse."
"Oh," was Erza's answer. She seemed slightly disturbed by his smile, but Loke didn't care. The only thing wrong was that he didn't get to kill one. He missed leaving his mark on his victims, but he couldn't exactly leave his famous mark on a Fairy Tail raid. It would give him away immediately. The next seven weeks could not go by fast enough.
"Well I think we've seen enough to know just how capable Celestial is," Master said, "Why don't we head back and start investigations. We know which way they ran. We'll start there."
Mira nodded. She was in charge of investigations because of her skills in disguise and interrogation. She was known as the 'Satan Soul Take-over mage of Fairy Tail' after all. Tomorrow Mira would draw up diagrams and plans of action. She'd work with her sister Lisanna, who also specialized as a takeover 'mage'. But for now Fairy Tail would head home and absorb what they saw. Loke; however, was going to go make preparations and polish up his old gear. Maybe take it out and put it to good use.
A/N: The second chapter! It's up so quickly! I have actually had this story sitting around and I keep adding to it. That's why.
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