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AN: Hi again guys! Thanks to the massive positive response I got from the first chapter I give you chapter number two =) I will try and update every weekend but I will give no promises. Love you all!

A new Lucy

Chapter Two – Rescued from the Nightmare

Recap: Suddenly the sound of footsteps stopped, I had counted them and thought that there were four people about to enter the basement. Then one of them spoke with a voice that I recognized.

"What the hell… I can smell a lot of dead bodies in the basement but also something that reminds me about… but that´s impossible, they said she was dead…"

"Who do you think you smell Laxus?" Another slightly familiar voice asked and when Laxus answered him, my blood went cold with irrational fear. If Laxus was here the rest of the Raijinshuu was also and they wouldn´t hurt me, so why was I still scared?

"It smells like Blondie."

The footsteps then became rushed and when the door to the basement suddenly was kicked off its hinges I whimpered in fear and tried to make myself even smaller. I kept my eyes tightly shut, afraid that it wasn´t real and that they would disappear if I opened my eyes.

"Oh god…" I heard a female voice whimper, most likely the only female on the team, Evergreen. Hurried footsteps closed in on me and then two fingers pressed against the side of my neck, searching for my pulse.

"She is still alive…" A male voice whispered as if he didn´t dare believe it. Another person came up to me as well and asked me.

"Lucy? Can you hear us?" He gently grasped my chin to tilt my head up but the innocent touch frightened me and I whimpered and tried to pull away only to realize that I didn´t have the strength to do that.

"Shh… Lucy calm down, we´re not going to hurt you. Open your eyes." The same voice told me and I thought it was Laxus but I wasn´t completely sure. I slowly cracked my right eye open and was met by the sight of Laxus stormy blue-grey eyes and blonde hair.

"La… Laxus?" I got out through my dry throat and cracked lips.

"Yeah Blondie, we´re going to get you out of here." He told me confidently before turning to the person beside him and asking.

"Can you do something about those cuffs?" I slowly moved my head until I saw that the first one to approach me had been Freed, his beautiful green hair the first thing I noticed.

"Yes but you better be ready to catch her, she will not be able to stand on her own. From the looks of her wrists she has been hanging here for weeks…" He then drew his sword to write a rune that would unlock my cuffs but at the sight of the sword I panicked. I screamed, loud and terrified and tried to get away unsuccessfully since I was still chained to the wall.

"Ah shit! Hurry Freed, get her free and then put away your sword. I think that´s what´s scaring her." Laxus told him while trying to hold me still by hugging me against his own body. Thankfully the hug didn´t freak me out even more and Freed had quickly gotten me free from the cuffs and put away his sword again. As soon as the cuffs let go of my abused wrists my legs gave out and I would have collapsed on the ground if Laxus had not held on to me.

I felt the pull of unconsciousness tug on me again but just before I slipped back into the darkness I heard Laxus tell the others that they were going back to their hotel room to care for me properly before letting the guild know I was still alive.

Then everything went dark.

x-X-x

I woke up slowly, one sense at a time and the first on to return to me were feeling. I could tell that I was lying on a soft bed with a thin sheet covering me; I was still wearing my tattered clothes which were a relief. I didn´t think I could handle it if they had stripped me and cared for my wounds while I was unconscious.

The second sense to return to me was hearing. I could tell from the number of heartbeats that all four of the Raijinshuu were in the room with me, and as if wanting to confirm it to me, they started talking.

"Shouldn´t we check her over for wounds now instead of waiting for her to wake up? What if she bleeds out on us?" Evergreen asked and I could tell that she only meant well even if that wasn´t the reaction they were going to get in case they tried taking my clothes off.

"No she has gone through enough, she will need to feel like she´s in control and we will take that away if we take her clothes off. Besides I can tell that she isn´t bleeding, at least not much and she has no infections thankfully, I would smell it otherwise." Laxus told her and I heard her hum in understanding. They were silent for a while before Freed asked the question I was sure they all were wondering about.

"How did she end up there? Did team Natsu not come back telling everyone she had died in battle? Why would they not tell us that she was captured so we could have gone after her?"

"I don´t know… We´ll have to ask Blondie that later when she wakes up." Laxus replied and the next one to talk was Bickslow.

"Do you think she will be alright again?" "Alright again? Alright again?" His babies copied him and they sounded so worried and cute that I felt the corner of my mouth twitch a little, trying to make me form a smile.

"I… I don´t know. I hope she will, for everyone's sake but if she has lost the spark in her heart that made her, her… then I don´t know…" Laxus said honestly and was that sadness I could hear in his voice?

"I hope she will be alright… She was the first one to forgive us after fantasia…" Evergreen whispered and the others made sounds of agreement. By now every trace of sleep and unconsciousness had disappeared and I slowly stretched my body with a few whimpers of pain before I slowly opened my right eye to take a look at my new surroundings.

Above me was a simple white roof and in the corner of my eye I could see a large window framed by a red curtain. I looked to the side and saw the Raijinshuu sitting in two couches, all of them looking at me. When they realized that I really was awake Evergreen shot up from the couch and made her way over to me.

She moved slowly as to not scare me and picked up a glass of water from the side table and helped me drink with gentle movements. When I had drained the glass I felt better and was able to slowly sit up with Evergreens help. They were all watching me as if they waited for me to say something, I didn´t though and so Evergreen was the one to break the sudden silence.

"What happened to you Lucy?" She asked me in a soft voice I had never heard her use before. I didn´t answer her, I didn´t say anything at all. I didn´t know what to say, how to explain what had happened. I only looked her in the eyes and tried to convey my conflicting feelings through them. I heard her gasp so apparently she had picked up on the feelings of hopelessness, sadness, anguish and torment that I was currently feeling. I turned my eyes down to stare at the hands that lay limply in my lap, the white bandages around the wrists marking them as my own.

I heard the guys move and then the bed dipped as all three of them joined Evergreen and I on the bed, someone laid a hand on my shoulder and I looked up and was met once again with Laxus face close to my own.

"Lucy, do you have wounds that need looked after? Other than the slash on your face and your wrists?" I kept my eye locked with his, understanding that he broke down the large question Evergreen asked me into smaller ones that would be easier for me to answer with the state of mind I was in. I was grateful that he did that and so I nodded my head yes, I had more wounds that needed to be looked after.

"Did you do something to my eye?" I asked in a whisper, deathly afraid that the answer would be yes. I wanted to check out my eye on my own first, in case the lykan spell thing had done something to it.

"No, I thought it would be better for you to wake up so that you could give us more information about what happened. The only things we did when you were unconscious was taking care of your wrists since they were in pretty bad shape, you´ll probably get some scars…" He told me honestly and I nodded absent mindedly. I already knew I was going to get scars…

"What are your other wounds? Do you need to see a doctor?" Freed asked me and I pulled my eyes from Laxus to focus them at Freed instead. His long green hair framing his face and worried blue-green eyes locked on me. He had left his sword on the coffee table by the couch for which I was grateful, I didn´t know if I was going to get another panic attack at the sight of it or not.

"I don´t need a doctor, I think… It´s on my back, they whipped me." I told them with the same strangely emotionless voice as I had told them everything else in. I felt very strange… Like a part of me had already healed from this entire ordeal while another part of me still was raw and sensitive to all of its cruelty. Then I once again heard Loke´s voice in my head, once again reassuring me.

"It´s alright princess, you feel that way because during your stay here with us you did heal. But the memories linger in your body which will make you have to go through it again, though it will not take as long or be as hard as the first time."

He told me before his voice faded away again and I realized that someone of the Raijinshuu was growling.

I looked to my left and as I expected it was Laxus who was growling, it was a dragon slayer trait that I had noticed all three of them had, Laxus, Gajeel and… and Natsu. As I thought about the pink haired fire dragon slayer pain stabbed me where my cracked heart was residing in my chest. He was supposed to be my best friend… and he had abandoned me like I meant nothing…

One of my hands had found its way to my chest and I pressed a closed fist against the origin of this new pain to try and keep it at bay. I closed my eye again and let out a whimper that made Evergreen pull me closer in a gentle hug.

"Let´s get you cleaned up; you will feel better after a shower. We can talk more later." She said and led me to the bathroom, leaving the boys sitting on the bed. When the bathroom door closed behind us Evergreen turned and simply looked at me before speaking.

"I don´t know what happened to you yet but I can see the pain in your eyes. I want to help you but I don´t know how or even if I´m capable to… But I want to try because you forgave us and gave us a second chance…" I interrupted her by putting a hand on her arm.

"Thank you…" I told her in a whisper and she gave me a weak smile in return before she started the water in the shower and helped me out of what was left of my clothes. I heard her choke back a sob when I bared my scarred and wounded back to her but she still helped me wash my hair and clean my body even with tears falling from her eyes.

It was amazing to feel clean again and even if the soap stung in my many wounds it was still the best shower I had ever had. But all too soon I was clean and running out of hot water so I turned the shower off and let Evergreen help wrap my hair and body in a towel. Then I looked myself in the mirror for the first time.

I looked the same but empty, like a shell of whom I was before. My hair was still the same; my right eye was still the color of milk chocolate but darkened by the pain I felt. My left eye was closed and I dared not open it until I was alone, I had a feeling that I might freak out when I saw it… My skin was still pale, even more so now than before and marred with scars and wounds that would become scars. I had lost weight but thanks to the training I did in the spirit world my muscles had not degenerated, instead I would gain the body I had gotten thanks to the training when I had finished healing. I met Evergreens eyes in the mirror and she told me.

"I´ll go out and grab some clothes for you to wear, and the medical supplies. Do you mind if I bring in Freed to put a healing rune on your back?"

"You can bring Freed but I might freak out since he writes the runes with his sword… it was a sword that gave me the wound on my face." I explained to her and she nodded before saying.

"I´ll let him know, I´ll be right back." And with that she left the bathroom and I was alone. I quickly faced the mirror again, determined to examine my eye now when I had the chance since they would surely insist on checking that over as well later. I wanted to be prepared before that happened.

I slowly cracked my left eye open and when I felt no pain I opened it fully only to be frozen in shock and horror. My left eye had changed. It was no longer the color of milk chocolate; instead it looked like the eye of a wolf. All glow-in-the-dark yellow-green with a black slitted pupil. No white and milk chocolate...It was like a pulse of electricity went through me and suddenly I realized just how much my senses had improved.

My vision was flawless and my hearing on par with the dragon slayers. My sense of smell had also improved drastically and I let out a small whimper as my normal eye was wide open in horror while my left eye, my wolf eye, simply looked vicious. I heard Evergreen and Freed outside the door and quickly closed my left eye again, I didn´t want them to see it…

The bathroom door opened and Evergreen entered first, followed by Freed who closed the door behind him, giving me as much privacy as possible. Evergreen came up to me and turned me so that I was facing her and had my back turned toward Freed who winced when he saw the damage.

"Close your eyes Lucy, Freed will write the healing rune on your back and then he will go back out again. I promise he won´t hurt you, do you trust me?" Evergreen told me but I didn´t answer her, I had trusted Natsu and look where that got me… But I did close my eyes and she nodded to Freed that he could begin.

I tensed up as I heard him draw his sword but I shut my eyes tightly and clenched my jaw to keep the fear inside me. I didn´t want him to feel bad when it wasn´t his fault. But he was fast and it wasn´t long before the door closed behind him as he left us alone again.

"Lucy? Are you okay?" Evergreen asked me worriedly when I didn´t move even though Freed had left. I lifted my head and answered her honestly.

"No I´m not okay… I will be though." Evergreen gave me a hesitant smile and then she helped me rewrap my wrists and dress in some of her clothes before she brushed my hair and braided it for me.

When we exited the bathroom I was assaulted by the delicious scent of food that made my mouth water, it seemed as if while I was in the shower Laxus and Bickslow had gotten us enough food to feed at least a few dragon slayers. I sat down in one of the two couches and quickly made myself a plate, I was starving.

The others joined me and made their own plates, chatting among themselves as they ate. I realized that I felt comfortable with them despite the betrayal that had happened to me. I had thought I would never be able to trust again but perhaps this group of people was going to prove me wrong…

Suddenly there was a pressure against my thigh and I looked down to see that one of Bickslows babies had left his side and come over to me. The little figure looked up at me while gently pressing against my leg, giving me the impression that he wanted to comfort me, he was so cute. I looked up to make sure that the others were busy talking and then carefully picked him up and hugged him against me, he reminded me a little of my spirits and I figured that Bickslow must have a similar bond to them as I had to my spirits.

The little guy seemed overjoyed that I had accepted him; they were probably just as lonely as Bickslow seemed to be. I suddenly felt bad that I hadn´t tried to become his friend sooner and promised both myself and the little guy in my lap that I would do my best to remedy that now. As if he had heard my thoughts, the little guy in my lap gave away a purr of happiness and as soon as he did the other four were also at my side, pressing against me and giving me comfort.

I smiled then, my first true smile since the start of my last mission with team Natsu and looked up when I noticed that the others had stopped talking to see that they were all staring at me with surprise in their eyes, even Bickslow seemed surprised at the actions of his little friends.

"I´m sorry… did I do something wrong?" I asked while unconsciously hugging the little one in my lap closer against me.

"No… I´ve just never seen them do that before…" Bickslow answered with an almost dazed expression on his face, his eyes glued to the one in my lap. Then the corners of his mouth turned up in a genuine happy smile and he raised his eyes to meet with mine while asking.

"You´re not freaked out by them? By me?"

"Why would I? They remind me of my spirits only in another form." I looked him in the eyes and asked him seriously. "And why on earth would you freak me out?" He looked startled when I looked him directly in the eyes since he for once didn´t wear the visor he usually wore.

"Because I´m different… Do you realize that you´re one of the few outside of the Raijinshuu that looks me in the eyes when I don´t wear my visor? Mira, Erza, Master and Gildarts are the only other ones who does that, everyone else is scared that I´ll use my magic on them."

"Then I´m different too. Why would you use your magic on me just because I make eye contact? That´s just stupid… besides, I like your eyes, they´re beautiful." I told him honestly and gave him something that could almost be called a smile if not for the emotional pain that was practically radiating off me.

I turned away from the shell shocked expressions of the Raijinshuu and looked back at the cute little figures that were surrounding me.

"Do they have any names?" I asked and Bickslow had to clear his throat before answering.

"Yes, Kim, Pim, Nim, Dim and Mim. Kim and Pim are on your left side, Dim and Mim on your right and Nim is the one in your lap."

The others picked up conversation again after that when they saw me preparing a second plate of food, I was still hungry but felt the need to wait a little before my second helping as to not shock my system and give me a stomach ache. Bickslows babies stayed close to me and I couldn´t believe how cute they were! How anyone could be freaked out by them was more than I could understand.

But when my second plate was empty they returned to Bickslow, all except for Nim, and the feeling in the room changed. I looked up to see all of them watching me and I knew that the questioning was about to begin again, hopefully this time I would be able to give them the answers they were looking for.

"We have to talk about what happened to you Lucy, how long were you in that basement?" Laxus asked, once again starting with questions that would be relatively easy to answer.

"I know… I was there the entire time since they took me, a few weeks to a month maybe? I was unconscious a lot…" I answered quietly.

"What did they do to you?"

"They beat me and whipped me mostly... They were going to kill me to use me as an offering to some goddess named Fenrisa to be 'blessed' with lykans disease. He chanted a spell and then he slashed at me with his sword, giving me the wound on my face. I was supposed to die but the spell failed since my spirits pulled my soul to the spirit world to protect me. They all died because the spell failed and when my body had healed enough my spirit was sent back, then you guys found me." I explained and felt all of them take a closer look at the newly formed scar on my face and my closed left eye.

"Did you lose your eye?" Evergreen asked hesitantly and seemed relieved when I shook my head no.

"No I didn´t lose my eye or my vision. But my eye… and a few other things… changed." I admitted and closed my eye for a moment before opening it again. I was scared about what they would think when they saw just how much had changed and if I was going to be deemed a freak. I was terrified of being abandoned a second time.

"Do you remember the chant he said before slashing at you?" Freed asked me with a frown and I mimicked him as I tried to remember.

"I think it was: by the power of the moon, in the name of our lykan goddess Fenrisa, we offer this human too you, so that we may be blessed. Or something like that…" Freed´s eyes widened and he paled a little, making the bad feeling I had about everything only increase.

"Are you sure?" He asked and I only nodded my head before lowering it to look down at my lap and little Nim who was still perched there.

"What does that mean Freed?" Laxus wanted to know and Freed took his eyes off me to explain the situation to his idol.

"Well, had the spell succeeded all of those dark guild mages would have transformed into wolves every time the moon came out, giving them more power and superior strength. Thanks to Lucy´s spirits that did not happen and since the spell was broken, the dark guild mages all died. But the spell was active when she was cut by the sword… And if my guess is right, she has acquired a few wolfish traits." Freed turned his attention back on me and the others followed, all of them wanting to know if Freed was right or not. I sighed but knew that I had to tell them, there simply wasn´t any way around that.

"I have gotten fangs and my vision, hearing and sense of smell have improved." I said quietly and curled in on myself, waiting for their reactions. It was quiet but when someone sat down next to me on the couch I flinched before curling up even more and whimpering pathetically.

"Lucy look at me." Laxus demanded softly from his seat next to me and I hesitantly tilted my head up to look at him with my right eye.

"Why does the fact that you have fangs and improved senses frighten you? That´s no different than what the dragon slayers have." He asked gently.

"I´m not so much worried about that as I am about my new eye…" I admitted weakly and fought the tears that wanted to appear in my open eye.

"Then what happened to your eye? I´m sure it´s nothing to be worried about." He told me in an effort to comfort me. I simply looked at him for a while before opening my left eye as well, expecting him to flinch away from me.

But he only kept looking at me, not showing in any way that he was disturbed by the new look of my left eye, and for that I was unbelievably grateful.

"There´s nothing wrong with you left eye, I think it's beautiful." He told me, completely serious, earning him another true smile.

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