Location: Middle of the Desert
Date: Unknown
"I will kill him!"
"Natsu calm down"
"No I will not! That man started all of this! He made us into these monsters!"
Lucy put her hand on my shoulder. Her touch made my anger dwindle down a little.
"Natsu…. I know how you feel but do you think vengeance is really the right answer?"
I stared at my feet as I tried to answer her, but her question made my head hurt. I didn't know what I wanted to do.
'He made me fight my friends…. he tried to kill us….'
"H-He deserves to die by my hand! I will make him suffer just like he made all of us suffer!", I growled as I lit a flame on my right fist.
Gray and Lucy both backed away, I could see that I was scaring them. The sight of them in fear made my heart crack.
'I am turning into a monster…..'
…
Location: Red Death's Secret Base
Date: Unknown
(Master's pov)
"Master!"
"Yes?"
"We have the exact location of Natsu and the others! Should we proceed with our attack?!"
"No not yet first we have to do something"
"What?"
I smirked as I made my way to my giant computers. I looked at all the shiny glowing buttons that were sprawled all around me.
"First I have to call a certain someone", my smirk grew wider.
I pressed the call button on the screen and waited for it to load up my contacts.
"Who would you like to call?"
I scrolled through all the names until I reached the h's.
"Found you.."
I clicked on the name that read Lucy Heartfilia and waited for the call to began.
'I better hide my voice so they don't recognize me'
I clicked on the side of my throat and changed the deepness of my voice.
'Let's make it high pitched so they think I am a fellow young soldier'
*Ring!* *Ring!* *Ring!*
I stood there in front of the screen as I waited for Lucy to answer the call. This gave me some time to think about what I was going to say.
"So why exactly are you calling them Master?", one of my servants asked as he stared at me.
I turned my gaze towards him and smiled sinisterly
"I'm going to make them think that I am part of the army"
"Why?"
"Because if they think that I'm on their side they'll listen to whatever I ask them to do"
"What are you going to ask them?"
"That they stay put"
"Why?"
"So that we can ambush them and kill them! They won't be able to fight against my entire army! I'll make sure to teach them despair!"
I cackled widely as my eyes grew wider and wider.
'I can't wait to fight you Natsu!...'
…
Location: Middle of the Desert
Date: Unknown
(Lucy's pov)
I felt my arm vibrating widely as the three of us made our way to their car. It was really irking me so I decided to check it out.
I pulled it up to my face and saw a small holographic screen on it.
It looked kinda like a phone screen but bigger.
'Who the hell would be calling me?'
The screen had two options, one of them was answer and the other was decline. I clicked on the answer button as I waited for the call to connect.
A couple of seconds later I heard some ruffling in my ear.
"Hello?"
"Lucy Heartfilia is that you?!"
"Maybe who is this?"
I saw Natsu and Gray looking at me with a confused look on their faces. I wouldn't blame them it looks like I'm talking to myself right now.
"Oh pardon my lack of respect. My name is Captain….. Durui I'm part of Magnolia's Army"
"Captain Durui? I have never heard your name back in the base…."
"Well that's because you and your comrades have been gone for a year"
"A YEAR?!"
"Yes, it's April 18, 2030"
"2030?! How is that possible?!"
Natsu and Gray flinched right in front of me. They to were also stunned about the time gap.
"I don't know you guys just….. disappeared. We sent search parties and everything but we couldn't find you"
"Then how did you manage to contact me?"
"Err… doesn't matter what matters is that we finally found you! Just stay put and we'll send a helicopter to pick you guys up"
"But I never told you my location?"
"You don't have to, I have your exact location on my screen right now thanks to radar"
"Radar? Who exact-
"Remember just stay put we'll be there shortly"
"Wait I still have-
Call disconnected
"Ughhh!", I screamed in frustration as Natsu and Gray just gave me a confused look.
"Who were you talking to right now?", Natsu asked as he scooted closer.
Gray also came closer as he to wanted to know the answer.
"A Captain from our army base"
"WHAT?!", they both shrieked out.
"Yea, he said that we were missing for a year and that they finally found us"
"Really?!"
"Yeah, they said that we should stay put for extraction"
"Finally I can go back to Magnolia and see my wife!", Gray yelled out as he fell to his knees.
I couldn't help but smile at the scene. But my smile disappeared in a second as a thought crossed my mind.
"Wait a minute….."
"What is it Lucy?", Natsu asked as he saw my face get gloomy and dark.
"... I just remembered something"
"What?"
"... what if they find out?"
"Find out about what?"
"That we're… not human anymore"
I could tell that my statement shoke Natsu and Gray to the core. They were speechless and worried just like I was.
We just stood there in silence as we all stared at the ground.
Natsu was the one to break the silence.
"We can fix this…."
"How?", I whispered looking up at him.
"We… just need to find that mysterious man and make him reverse what he has done to us"
"What if he can't?", Gray asked as he crossed his arms.
"There is no can't, I'll make him fix us even if I have to do it by force!", Natsu growled as he let his bangs cover his eyes.
"I will….. fix us, even if it's the last thing I do", Natsu whispered more to himself then he did to us.
"Natsu-
*BOOM!*
The ground exploded right in front of us making all of us fall to the ground.
From the impact of the explosion I could tell that someone was trying to hit us with a missile but who?
"What the hell was that?!", Gray yelled out as he started to pull himself up.
"I'm not sure, but we should get to cover-
"FREEZE!", a gigantic voice roared in the sky making all of stiffin.
"STAY WHERE YOU ARE!"
'Could that be the army?!'
A gigantic black helicopter came out of the clouds and floated right in front of us. It didn't look like a military chopper but it still looked like it was high-teched.
The blades on the chopper were blowing huge gigantic gusts of wind all over the desert. My blonde hair was flying all over the place.
"WHO ARE YOU?!", Natsu yelled out as he inched closer to the floating helicopter.
The back of the helicopter opened revealing four black figures. I couldn't really identify them because of the sand flying all over my face.
I could see them drop down from the chopper. They landed right in front of us but I still couldn't clearly see them.
"Are you the military!", Gray yelled out as he backed away from them. Natsu and I did the same thing.
"Mwahahaha! You wish!", a dark and sinister voice responded back.
I recognized that voice it was none other than-
"YOU!", Natsu growled out as he sprinted towards the black figures.
"NATSU! DON'T!", I yelled out as I tried to pull him back but he was to fast.
"HEAT WAVE!", Natsu yelled out as red flames engulfed the area around us. I expected the black figures to flee from the flames but they just kept their ground.
'Why aren't they moving?'
"HEAT EXPLOSION!", I heard the Mysterious Man yell making a giant explosion around him. It sent Natsu flying back towards us. His whole body became burned.
"NATSU!", I screamed out as I rushed to his burning body.
"Are you alright?!"
Natsu just smiled and said, "Don't worry Luce I'm fine, it didn't hurt one bit"
I knew he was lying just so he could comfort me but it didn't work.
"You've always been impatient Natsu! That's something we share in COMMON!", the Mysterious Man yelled out as he flew like a bullet straight to Natsu. He grabbed Natsu and flew away with him across the desert.
"NATSU!", Gray and I both yelled out as we started to sprint after them but three figures stopped us in our tracks.
"Where do you think you're going?!", one of the figures yelled out at us. It was strange the voice sounded a lot like mine.
"Who are you?!", Gray growled as he got into a fighting stance.
"We're the better version of you guys! The perfect version!"
The sunrise started to shine on the figures revealing their identities.
They looked exactly like Gray, Laxus, and I, it was like staring into a mirror. But the only difference was that their eyes were pure black.
"What?! HOW?!", Gray yelled out in shock.
"We don't have time to answer your questions our objective right now is to kill you! So please surrender we clearly outnumber you!", the Gray with black eyes said as he moved closer to us.
'It's true we're outnumbered by one person!"
"No you don't!", a new voice chimed in as I heard heavy footsteps behind me.
I turned around and saw Laxus covered in yellow lightning.
"Because I'm here!", he roared sounding just like thunder.
"Laxus!...", Gray and I both yelled out.
"This isn't the time for a reunion! We have to crush these assholes!", he yelled out as he covered his fists with lightning.
"You're right the sooner we deal with these three, the sooner we can help Natsu", Gray smirked as he cupped both of his hands.
"That's right!", I yelled out as I pulled out my black magnum and aimed it at my clone.
"Let's finish this quickly!"
"CHARGE!"
A/N: Yay! Laxus is finally awake :D
Thank you guys for reading, till next time! ^.^