A long way from where Lucy was, Natsu stood, staring at the man, or rather celestial spirit in front of him. Loke was there in front of him, looking almost as shocked as he was, and definitely in pain. The members of the guild crowded around him in confusion as he doubled over and caught his breath.

Even though he had materialized in front of them, Natsu knew better and waited for the orange-haired male to speak before he demanded to know where and how Lucy was. Finally, the spirit was able to stand, even though he looked pained and began to explain before anyone could ask anything after the master had come out from behind the curtain to hear what was going to be said as well.

Loke began as soon as the master nodded. "Lucy is being held by the guy Asher, we are all always with her but when she was taken to the place where they are now keeping her, it was almost as if some block went up. We can't watch over her in there, I mean we can't even feel her when she's in there. It's been like that for the last two weeks we've been able to feel her magic a couple of times, but it was quick to go out again, finally, today we could feel her magic and she summoned me, but since my key wasn't with her I couldn't go directly to her. She told me something though before her magic got cut off. She was saying something about a large house not a mansion, magic energy being drained, cuts, and then somebodies name, I think she said 'Sasha?'"

Loke finally finished his tale and Team Natsu gasped when they heard the name, looking at each other before nodding quickly. Erza spoke up before Natsu or the rest of the guild could react. "I believe Lucy was trying to say that this Asher person is draining her magical energy, and I want to believe that I know where she might be located." Erza nodded to some of the gasps around the guild. "I'm not entirely certain, but I believe she is at the house of our previous client. A three days trip from here by train. I don't know why she doesn't just use her magic to leave but we have to assume that the house is protected by some form of magical barrier. Getting in and out with Lucy may not be easy enough for just us."

Erza looked up at the Master and he nodded, opening his mouth to speak when he was cut off by the guildhall doors slamming open. "Good thing you have two more dragon slayers to help you!" came a gravelly voice from the doorway. The Fairy Tail members all blinked and looked at the two newcomers. Before anything else could be said Natsu recognized Sting and Rogue and clenched his fists in anger as he ran towards them, his fist blazing as he tried to land a punch to Sting's pretty face.

Sting dodged with a slightly amused look and ended up continuing to dodge Natsu's oncoming attacks until Erza grabbed him by the back of his white scaly scarf. "What is your purpose for being here?" Erza questions the two calm slayers of Sabertooth.

Both Sting and Rogue looked at the other and looked down at their feet guiltily. "Lucy was our guildmate, and our team mate," Rogue stated, "we may not have been strong enough to help her when she was kicked out, but she seems happy here, we want her to be happy, so we wanted to come help you guys find her after we heard she had been taken."

Natsu's fists clenched even tighter and he growled deep in the back of his throat, causing guild members to scoot away from the heating slayer. Erza who still held her hold on his scarf looked at Natsu and gripped him tighter. "What the hell right do you think you have? You let her go! You watched her get hurt and you didn't do a thing to help her!" Natsu shouted in anger, his eyes turning into dark slits like a dragon.

The two slayers from Sabertooth looked even guiltier as they nodded sadly. "We were all terrified of our guild master. Afraid we would be punished and kicked out too if we disagreed. Now that Sting is our new guild master though, we can live and form as one united guild once more, one that won't ever harm one of their own ever again." Rogue said, and Sting straightened at the mention of his name with a nod.

Natsu eyed the blonde dragon slayer and sighed relaxing slightly, "fine but we're only using your help because I want to save Lucy and fighting you two won't help." Both the blonde and black-haired slayers nodded and stepped further into the guild, so they could form a plan.

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Lucy couldn't tell day from night anymore, all she knew was the pain on her body and the feeling of her magic being nearly completely drained. It had seemed as though after the first dose of Lucy's magic; Asher and his demon could easily take more every day. She knew it had to have been at least two days since the first day he had started to cut and drain her body of blood. Ultimately, she was just glad none of the other girls had had to go into that white room. She was certain if they went in there they wouldn't come back out.

Lucy dreaded every time the shadow passed through the bars, Asher was now taking less magic from her but more often, allowing her and hours rest before coming back in to take her away again. She hated it, hated the feeling of being weak and helpless, hated thinking and knowing there was nothing she could do to save the girls in the cell with her or herself.

After the third time on the second day she knew it was finally over for the day, making her relax against her chains that hung on the wall. She was exhausted and hurting in every place possible, her body felt weaker than it had ever felt before and she knew it wasn't going to long before she ran out of magic and blood.

Normally her magic would be able to come back to her when she ran low, but the walls of the cell made it impossible. Niylah had told her that all the magic was blocked and went straight to Asher throughout the house, making Lucy shudder at the thought.

She sighed as she looked around the damp, dark cell for the billionth time that day. She glanced over at the girls near her, meeting Niylah's eyes with a side smile as she looked back away. She felt herself grow angry again at the thought of her being helpless and she knew that her magic would be gone the next time Asher came for his dose. She hung her head and finally, after being her for days, let a small tear slip down her face, just as quick as it had come she stood back up and showed no other emotion as she waited for Asher to come back. He had given her time to rest before he began draining her of blood again, but Lucy knew it was only a matter of time before his wife demanded more.

She was just about to rest for the day when she felt the dreaded shadow nearing. This time Lucy panicked, she thought she would get another day. She began to kick and scream with all her remaining strength as she fought Asher when he appeared before her, grabbing her chains from off the wall.

"No! I can't go back again! You already took magic today!" She screamed, kicking as he dragged her out of the room without so much as a word. She made eye contact with the rest of the girls that were still chained to the walls and she saw them all stare in shock and fear as Lucy was dragged around the corner by her hair.

"Please! This is the last bit of my magic! I'll die! You'll die!" she tried to reason with him, but it seemed as though he hadn't even heard her screams.

Throwing her into the white room she shook as he shut the door behind him. Lucy glanced around, looking for the demon shadow that always accompanied him. When she couldn't see it she looked back at Asher with fear in her wide brown eyes.

Asher licked his lips and smiled villainously as he slowly strolled towards her. Lucy actually felt fear for the first time since she had come to this horrid place. She was so afraid to lose her magic, her spirits, her friends. She couldn't help but shake and curl herself into a ball as the man stood before her.

"Drop that sickly barrier of yours, my angel. It's very weak, you'll definitely be out of magic this next time." Asher purred in her ear, dragging a knife over her stomach slowly, teasingly. She screamed in pain as she felt her skin tear open. Clutching his arm, she screamed for him to stop and he laughed maniacally.

In Lucy's mind, dying would have been so nice at this point, with a sad scream of pain she dropped the tiny barrier she had up and let the evil man take the rest of her magic as she cried. She could feel her now empty, hollow body but it didn't feel like Lucy was there in it. It seemed as though she was watching from above the scene as she saw Asher, his body bent back and on his knees as he soaked up the rest of her magic.

Lucy saw herself as her eyes began to shut, tears still falling from her now shut eyes. As the Lucy that hovered above started to fade she heard the sound of a door crashing open.

Lucy snapped back to her body before she could see who had barged in, she figured it had to be the demon shadow. She heard shouts as she tried to pry her heavy eyes open but her body refused and painfully slow, her mind and consciousness faded to darkness.

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Hey guys, sorry it took me a while to write this. The next chapter is gonna be a pretty badass battle scene so check it out! Also, I finished Soul Mark, and it turned out really cute! I also have a new story, Ereri fanfic, posted on my Wattpad so check that out too! My user is the same as on here! Thanks for reading! See ya next chapter! :)

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