Natsu's feet hit the stone hard enough to leave dents and he spun around. 'Where is she? How could I have let her get taken? Why the hell can't I smell her?' he growled to himself as his eyes narrowed into deep slits and he scanned the area that she had just been.

Gray and Erza had jumped down right after Natsu and they too looked around for Lucy, shocked that they couldn't see her or any sign of her. Happy flew down next to them and looked around to, his eyes going wide when there was no trace of the blonde.

"Where did she go Natsu?" Happy asked in a tiny nervous voice as he looked around the darkened alley way and then to his best friend. Natsu growled angrily and clenched his fists, his voice was deep and angry as he answered the small blue cat. "I don't know Happy, I can't smell her."

Erza and Gray looked at Natsu in shock. Surely that couldn't be right, she was here not five minutes ago, her scent couldn't have vanished in that short of a time, especially not to the dragon slayer. Natsu looked angry and upset as he hurried out of the alley, glancing both directions to see if he noticed the blonde anywhere. It was no use, the streets were filled with people, none of which had pretty blonde hair like Lucy's.

Natsu's fists clenched harder, digging his sharp nails into his hands until they bled, and he growled in frustration, turning, he slammed his fist into the wall in anger. "I knew I shouldn't have let her be bait damn it! I can't believe I didn't sense him sooner. What the hell was I doing? I should have been down there next to her the whole time!" Natsu cried out and fell to his knees, gripping his hair as he screamed.

Happy walked over to his pink-haired friend and put a paw on his arm in comfort. When Natsu looked he saw that Happy had tears in his big eyes and Natsu frowned. Even though they had acted like they hated each other, it seemed Happy and Lucy were always hanging out. He hadn't realized the two of them had gotten so close and he bent down to hug the now crying cat to his chest. They both wept for Lucy, while they held each other. Gray and Erza could only watch with tears welling in their eyes as well.

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Lucy woke up in a small damp cell, her wrists were chained to the wall behind her and when glancing around she noticed three other girls inside the cell with her. All of the girls had wounds along their bodies, making the blonde gasp as she looked at them. Some were fresh with blood still dripping from them, others had scars and healing ones. The girls were all staring at Lucy in sympathy.

With a lick of her dry lips Lucy glanced at the girls again and asked, "where are we?" None of the girls answered, making Lucy frown in confusion. She repeated the question again, this time the girl's all avoided her stare and Lucy sighed in frustration.

It was then that she realized the cffs that were on her wrists were just mere cuffs and not magical ones. She smiled a little to herself, thanking Loke for teaching her how to keep up her barrier on her magic even when asleep. Lucy glanced around at the other girl's and her lips twisted into a wicked smile. "We're gonna get out of here ok?" she promised, making all the girl's look up again at her in shock.

Lucy shut her eyes and slowly dropped the barrier on her magic, smiling at the comforting feeling of her magic flowing through her body again. She heard one of the girl's gasp quietly and Lucy smiled and kept her eyes shut, dropping more of her barrier.

"STOP!" screamed a short green-haired pixie looking girl, Lucy's eyes shot open and she screamed in pain from the loudness of the voice, she stared at the girl in confusion. The girl was about to say more when a shadow passed through the bars of the cell and stood in front of Lucy. She gasped as the shadow transformed into a man, presumably Asher. He had dark grey hair and a wicked smile, his black eyes seemed lifeless as he smirked at Lucy making her tremble slightly. He was tall enough that she had to tip her head back to look at his face and it made him seem all the more menacing.

"So, the little angel has magic?" he asked, his voice was gravelly and croaky, causing the blonde to shudder as he spoke. Asher licked his lips slowly and smiled once more, reaching a hand out to touch Lucy's face. She squared her shoulders and looked up at him, forcing herself not to tremble under his touch and gaze. "Show me all of your magical energy." He whispered, his face mere inches from hers.

Lucy glared up at him, through gritted teeth she responded, "go to hell," making Asher tilt his head back with an enormous laugh. "Don't you know Angel? We're already there!" he gestures around the room with another wicked laugh. Suddenly he stops laughing as if realizing no one else was joining in and grabs Lucy by the face.

"Show. Me. Your. Magic." He says again, this time his voice deeper than before. Lucy could see a shadow forming behind his back, a taller shadow than him with red glowing eyes. Lucy couldn't help but drop her magical barrier, the girl's around her shocked as waves of her magic bounced off the walls and the demon shadow behind Asher trembled and tipped its head back happily.

Asher smiled menacingly and did the same thing as the shadow, tipping his head back, almost as if basking in the energy. "So pure, so light, so good," Asher said to himself as he soaked in Lucy's energy. "You will definitely be next," he said and turned leaving the same way he came, followed reluctantly by the demon shadow.

Lucy looked after him in shock and pushed her barrier back up. "How was a mage as strong as you captured by him?" the small pixie girl asked in awe, the rest of the girl's stared at Lucy all waiting for an answer.

Lucy recounted what had happened earlier and the girl's gasped and shook their heads. Lucy couldn't help it anymore and glanced over at all of the girl's, "what does he mean by 'I'm next?'" The girl's all glance at each other and finally the green-haired girl sighs.

"We're all mages, we all have or well actually had, magical energy. He, Asher, captured us and has been stealing it from us. He drains us of it and tosses us out to bring in someone else, it's how he, and his shadow are so strong. As you can see, we're almost all used up." She nods to the other two girls who look down in despair. "His wife is the one that cuts us, she believes that bathing in young female mage's blood will make her live longer and stay young and beautiful forever."

Lucy's fists clench behind her back and she grit her teeth, "not if I have anything to say about it," she says in a growl. Her barrier drops immediately, and she relishes in the magic flowing through her body once more. It had been so long since she had fully dropped her magical barrier and doing it twice in one day was like taking heels off after wearing them for an entire day. Lucy sighed happily, and her arms began to glow with the intricate details of her magic as it swirled through her arms. Light burst through her body as the patterns glowed white and swirled over her neck and down her legs.

The other girls watched in awe at Lucy's magic. None of them able to warn the girl not to as they all stared at the beautiful designs crawling over the blonde's skin. It wasn't until it was too late that the girls remembered to warn her.

Lucy screamed in pain as a burning sensation filled her body and her magic dissolved slowly, the light faded from her body and she was left gasping for air as her barrier was put back up. She looked up, coming face to face with the demon shadow, its eyes glowed red and held a slight light in the middle, indicating it had taken some of Lucy's magic. With the barrier back up, Lucy could do nothing but glare at the demon as she tried to think of a way to get out.

The pixie girl spoke up quietly, even though the demon was still there. "You can't use your magic, he'll absorb it, it's easier than taking it by force so it's what Asher wants you to do, especially since you have your barrier. He can't get around that easily. And he likes things easy." Lucy nodded slowly, still staring at the demon in front of her as if he was waiting for her to do something. There was no way in hell she was going to give him the satisfaction of taking more of her magic.

It had been maybe an hour and the demon had finally left. At that point Lucy tried to work her way through the cuffs, she could feel the blood dripping from them as she cut her wrists trying to break free, but it was no use.

The pixie girl had introduced herself as Niylah, and Lucy had smiled and introduced herself as well. She found out that the other two never spoke, but the red head was named Sarah and the black-haired girl was called Luna. All of them were young and absolutely beautiful and Lucy couldn't help but frown thinking about all the other girls that had been in the same situation.

As the days wore on Lucy lost count of how long it had been since she had been captured. Not once had Asher or his wife come to see her or the other girls though. However, that should have made Lucy feel better, instead it only put her more on edge, she just hoped Natsu and the others could find her before something bad happened.

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It had been one whole week. Natsu and the rest of Team Natsu had gone back home to Magnolia, much to Natsu's dismay. Erza needed to report to Gramps about what had happened and most of Fairy Tail mourned Lucy as if she were dead. Something that infuriated Natsu beyond belief.

Everyone had noticed how the fire dragon-slayer had changed. He became distant and irritable, restless to go find Lucy. He even snapped at Happy more than once when the little blue cat had brought him fish to try and cheer him up. He carried Lucy's keys with him wherever he went since the blonde had left them with Erza when she was playing bait, not wanting Asher to know she was a mage.

Gramps was angry as well, Lucy hadn't been in the guild long, but he still thought of her as one of his children, and there was no way he was going to give up on one of his children. Most of the guild hadn't known Lucy at all since she tended to stick to herself or with Team Natsu, but the ones that did, like Natsu, Erza, Gray, Happy, Makarov, Mira, Wendy and even Levy, were distraught. They all wanted to find their Lucy and bring her back safe and sound.

It took a week, one whole week of doing next to nothing except lookout and listen for clues on the Asher guy before Natsu snapped. He couldn't handle just sitting at the guild hall anymore. He had to be out looking for Lucy, even though he had been given direct orders from Erza and Makarov not to go anywhere but home and the guild hall.

He knew Erza and Gramps were doing their best in finding leads on Lucy's whereabouts but after a week, leads weren't good enough anymore. He needed answers, he could barely even remember what she smelled like. A thought that worried him every time his mind ceased to think of something else.

Natsu went out looking for her every day and slowly a week turned into two and still, nothing was found on either Lucy or Asher. Natsu traveled the entire land of Fiore with Happy, desperate to catch even the slightest whiff of Lucy's presence. He was devastated and grew more hopeless each time they passed through a town that left them no closer to their goal.

To Natsu it was almost as if he had dreamed up Lucy the way people at the guild hall acted. If it weren't for the people that had actually gotten to know Lucy he would have given up, calling it his imagination at play. But deep down Natsu knew that Lucy was out there somewhere, and he was going to find her, no matter how long it would take or what he would have to do.

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Lucy still didn't know how long it had been, all she knew is that she hated waiting for the guy or his wife to come and take from her for the first time. It had still yet to happen, even the other girls seemed shocked that it was taking so long, which only made Lucy more scared of what was to come.

Lucy had decided to sleep for a few minutes one day, two weeks after being captured when she felt a presence in front of her. When she opened her eyes Asher and his demon stood in front of her. Asher's eyes shined bright with excitement and his smile seemed almost giddy as he grabbed Lucy's chin.

Squaring her shoulders and looking up at the man Lucy waited, pride and dignity shone brightly on her features making the man smile even wider. "I'm going to have so much fun breaking you, my angel." He said happily, licking his lips slowly as he grabbed her cuffs, lifting them from the hook they were on and making her arms bend at strange, painful angles to take them off. Lucy gasped out loud and then bit her lip as she endured the pain and glared at the man. He led her out of the room and Lucy caught Niylah glancing at her with fear and sympathy etched onto her pretty, scarred face.

Lucy was led down a corridor filled with cells just like hers, though thankfully none of them had people in them. Asher pushed her upstairs and into what seemed like the main floor of the house they were in. Suddenly she gasped, she recognized this house. It was Sasha's house, the client they had been in works with before she had been captured. She was led down a hallway and into a small, clean white room with a weird bathtub in the middle.

She was led to the bathtub, a wicked grin on Asher's face and he stood her in the tub, turning her to face him. 'What the hell is he going to do to me?' she thought silently as she looked around the room. Asher laughed and walked over to a door on one side of the room, pulling it open he revealed another room full of knives, swords and whips. Lucy's face blanched and her eyes widened.

'Ok Lucy, remember, you have dealt with worse in Sabertooth and the demon, and fighting Juvia,' she thought to herself, shutting her eyes as she braced for the pain. She didn't want to know what Asher had chosen first, so she kept her head high and her eyes shut. When she heard footsteps walking back toward she tensed slightly.

"You see, my wife believes that the blood from innocent young girls can make you live a lot longer, stay young longer, and always be beautiful." Asher began, and Lucy could hear him walking around her, "silly, I know but she is very beautiful, so maybe it's working? Me though, I just want the magic, the power, the energy of life itself. And so, with you girls I can make my wife happy, and myself happy."

Lucy could hear the grin in his voice and knew he was standing in front of her. She could even hear his hand come forward before she felt the pain of the first slice of the bladed to her bare thigh. Lucy bit her lip, not giving him the satisfaction of hearing her scream.

"Let it out, my angel," Asher purred close to her ear, "drop that barrier and give me you magic, I won't stop until you do." With that, another cut was made to her leg and Lucy whimpered as this one was deeper than the last. She could feel the blood running down her leg and pool at her feet in the tub making her grimace slightly.

She knew she would bleed for a while and already the pain was ebbing as she thought of worse fights. Still, she refused to drop her barrier and Asher growled slightly in frustration. Lucy knew he usually got what he wanted without having to even cut the girl he had. They would probably give in and use their magic quickly, so they wouldn't be cut. But Lucy wasn't like other girls.

She stood her ground as she heard the lower half of her shirt get ripped away and tensed preparing for the pain that was sure to arrive. She was expecting to feel a blade across her stomach, when instead she felt the stinging pain and heard the sound of a whip strike across her abdomen. Shocked and in pain Lucy's guard dropped and her barrier fell slightly, she hurried to put it back up, but it was too late.

Asher dropped the whip and tilted his head back as the demon behind him did the same. She could feel her magic draining slowly, leaving her body and she cried out in agony. Asher and the demon didn't take a lot of her magic to her surprise but the sudden rush she got from both the magic and blood loss caused her to sway on her feet.

"I can't take too much, or my body won't be able to process it all and I'll die." Ashe explained, even though Lucy hadn't asked. He smiled and looked down at the pool of blood nodding in approval before bandaging her legs up. Lucy could barely walk by the time he was finished with her and as soon as he had stopped taking magic she had replaced the barrier, knowing that down in the cell she could release it again to fill back up. As they walked down the hallway back into the main room Lucy's feet dragged. 'If only Horologium were here to carry me' she thought pitifully, a sad smile graced her lips as she thought of her spirits and how she had left her keys with Erza.

Suddenly Lucy stopped walking, shocking Asher so that he turned to look at her and she quickly dropped her magic barrier, making his eyes widen as he couldn't absorb anymore. He was preparing for her to attack when suddenly it went back up and she continued walking, her feet dragging along once more until she was slumped back into her chains in the cold damp cell once more.

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So, yep! Two in one night how awesome! :) Anyway I hope this satisfies you guys for a little while so I can work on my other story. I'm actually really excited about this one so I cant wait to see what you guys think! Leave me reviews please because I absolutely love reading them and working on things that you think I should fix! Anyway, why did Lucy drop her barrier? And why didn't she attack? Who's Asher's wifey? (Pretty easy one) What do ya think is gonna happen to her? Will Natsu find her on time or will she lose more of her magic? Find out next chapter :)