Capricorn appeared, wearing his usual black suit and sunglasses.

He turned to formally address Lucy. "Mistress Lucy, it is a pleasure to have been summoned. How may I assist you?"

"Behind you!" she squeaked, pointing frantically.

Capricorn turned in time to see a dog lunging at him. He reacted quickly and landed a karate chop to the beast's neck. The dog fell motionless to the ground. Lucy forced herself to stand up, wincing at the pain in her leg. More dogs were circling them and despite Capricorn's expertise in hand-to-hand combat, she new he would need her help.

"Open, the celestial gate of the Lion."

There was a flash of light and Loke was standing with them. Summoning two celestial spirits at once had drained most of Lucy's magic. She swayed slightly and tried not to think about her leg.

Capricorn and Loke began to fight the remaining dogs. She looked over at Bacchus and Laxus. They were still rolling on the ground, exchanging blows. It was starting to make her mad. She had been severely injured and neither of them had even noticed. Occasionally a dog would pounce on them, only to be electrocuted or beaten.

A low growl snapped her back to attention. She turned and saw a huge tiger mauling Capricorn.

"Capricorn!" she screamed. She ran towards the gruesome scene.

Blazing light shot through the air and hit the tiger. It was Loke's Regulus attack. The Tiger flew back, taking out a small tree in the process. When he hit the ground, his fur began to move and he shifted back into a man.

It was the pack leader, Razorback.

"Oh my god, Ray, are you alright?" Another one of the dogs had shifted back into human form and was crouching next to the injured man.

"Winona," she muttered. The petite brunette was close to tears as she fussed over her fallen leader. Lucy felt little sympathy for her. Winona's piece of crap boyfriend had been trying to make a meal out of one of her spirits.

Lucy and Loke ran to where Capricorn was laying. All of the other dogs had taken off once they had seen their pack leader go down.

"Are you okay?" Lucy knelt next to the goat spirit and took his hand.

He coughed. "It hurts but I'll be okay. With your permission, I'd like to return to the spirit world so that I can heal."

"Of course," Lucy nodded in agreement and the spirit vanished.

Loke was frowning down at her.

"Lucy, you're injured."

Now that the fighting was over, Lucy forced herself to look at the injury to her leg. The bite mark went halfway around her leg and she could actually see where the individual teeth had been. Too bad Wendy wasn't around; her healing magic would have been much appreciated.

"We need to get that cleaned right away. There were probably all sorts of bacteria in that guy's mouth." Loke looked over at Razorback and clenched his fists. "Who is that guy, anyways?"

Lucy sighed. "It's a long story."

Loke looked over at Laxus and Bacchus who had just finished fighting. Laxus was standing up but Bacchus stayed on the ground.

"Are you on a mission with Laxus?"

Loke must not know that I am dating Laxus, thought Lucy. "It's a very long story." She didn't feel like explaining everything that had happened in the last couple days.

Laxus was making his way towards her and Lucy felt herself getting mad again. It didn't help that Bacchus wasn't moving. She wanted to be mad at him too, but that wouldn't work if he was dead.

"Why did you summon Loke?" Laxus had reached them. His clothes were filthy from rolling around on the ground and it looked like a black eye was beginning to form.

So Bacchus managed to get a couple licks in, eh? Lucy felt a small amount of evil vindication. "I summoned Loke because I didn't want to end up as doggy chow."

There was a groan and Bacchus rolled over. Lucy remained expressionless but was glad that Bacchus was moving. Laxus looked around, taking in the scene of the battle. His eyes stopped on Lucy's bite mark.

"Damn Lucy, your leg is torn up."

"Damn Laxus, I know."

Loke was eyeing Laxus and Lucy. "Is something going on between you two?" he asked cautiously.

"Yes," said Laxus. Lucy simultaneously blurted out a firm "No".

Laxus's jaw dropped. "Why are you telling him, no?"

"Because I don't think I want to be your girlfriend anymore." Lucy crossed her hands over her chest. It occurred to her that things had happened so quickly between them that she wasn't even sure if she had reached girlfriend status. She supposed it didn't really matter.

"Come on Loke, let's get out of here." She tried her best to stomp away but her leg hurt too bad so she had to settle for angry hobbling. It would have been better if Loke had helped her but it was hard to make a scene if you were being carried. And she wanted to make a scene.

Loke caught up with Lucy and walked beside her in silence. Normally, he would take the opportunity to try and woo the beautiful blond but she didn't seem to be in the mood for flirting tonight. They found an inn and booked a room. Lucy flopped on the bed and Loke filled the ice bucket with water. He took two little bottles of vodka from the mini-fridge.

"This is going to hurt but I need to disinfect the wound. Lucy nodded numbly, not moving. A little pain seemed like nothing after everything she had gone through that night.

Loke got to work cleaning out the wound. Tears began to fall down Lucy's cheeks. The tears weren't from the pain of the disinfectant; they were from the pain in her heart. She was starting to regret breaking up with Laxus.

But he didn't even act like he cared about me. He was too wrapped up in beating Bacchus to a pulp. Lucy sniffled. It was his fault I got in this mess in the first place.

Loke finished cleaning the wound and lay down next to Lucy.

"Why are you crying?" He brushed the tears from her cheek with his thumb.

"Laxus is a big jerk."

"Well, that isn't anything new."

Lucy laughed, a snot-filled laugh, despite herself. "Well, the last couple days were different. I thought he had changed." Another tear fell as she finished speaking.

"Hey, it's okay. He doesn't deserve you."

"How can you say that? You don't even know everything that happened."

"Because any guy who will make my girl cry isn't worth shit." Loke sat up and pulled Lucy's head into his lap. He stroked her hair for a couple minutes. "What was the drunk falcon doing there?"

"You know Bacchus?"

"A little."

"He won some bet with Laxus and thought he would get to spend the night with me."

Loke stopped stroking her hair. "Are you serious?"

"Yeah, but it wasn't all that bad. He made me a sandwich. And he sang karaoke."

Loke chuckled. "You've had quite a night, Lucy Heartfilla."

"Tell me about it."