"Huh?"

'Where am I?' Lucy thought to herself as she took in her surroundings. She was in a filthy room. The walls were made of brick and were cracked and crumbling in some places. The floor was made of wood and was rotted, some rodents scurried around. Spiderwebs were hanging from the ceilings. In the middle of the room there was a single chair.

And on that chair sat s small blonde girl. Chained by the wrists and ankles to the iron chair. Her head was hanging down so that her hair fell in front of her face.

"No, not this place," Lucy said quietly as she walked over to the girl. She tentatively reached out her hand to comfort the girl.

Her hand went right through her.

"No," Lucy repeated. This was in her past. Why now?

A door opened slowly behind her. Revealing a tall man.

"Not him," Lucy shuddered to be in the presence of that man.

"Hello Lucy," He said sweetly. The little girl looked up.

"Papa?" She asked. Leaning forward in her binds.

"No, no, no! That man is not your father! Run!" Lucy pleaded towards the girl. She couldn't do anything.

The man stepped closer towards the girl. He kneeled down in front of her and stretched his hand out towards her face.

His hand froze.

SLAP

The girl looked shocked. Lucy stared in horror and rubbed her stinging cheek as the events replayed themselves. "No," She tried to use her magic against the man who she once called papa. No use.

"I-I'm just as helpless as I was back then," She realized.

"You are no daughter of mine," he spat at the girl. Whose chocolate brown orbs stared at his steel ones in shock.

" B-But daddy?"

"NO!" he yelled.

Lucy froze. And collapsed. Fear taking her over as she slumped next to the girl in the chair, her younger self.

"You are not even human, a monster. You are a monster,"

"I'm a . . . monster?" The girl repeated as she froze up 'Was it really true?' She thought.

"H-how? I-I've done nothing wrong?!" The girl yelled as she lunged forward in her binds. The cold metal dug into her wrists as she slumped back in the chair.

Lucy caressed her wrists.

"Yes," The man said as he took one of her feet. "It's time you realized that, Lucille," He said as he pulled a blade out of his pocket.

Lucy stared at the blade as a flurry of emotions crossed her face.

Shock, abandonment, horror, bewilderment, and mostly

fear.

The man brought the blade up to the girl's foot as he began to carve. "A permanent reminder,"

Y-O-U A-R-E A

he carved into one foot. As the blood spilled from the girls feet, Lucy stared at her feet as she felt her feet be painfully branded again. The letters carved themselves into her own feet once again as her feet bled onto the wooden floor as well.

She screamed. Not only from pain. But from the hurt of reliving this day.

The day it all changed.

The day her father went insane.

She screamed out through clenched teeth. " NO! DO NOT BELIEVE THIS MAN! HE IS CRUEL! EVIL! A BASTARD!"

She cringed as the blade went deeper into the crying girls foot. Lucy felt the pain transfer. Also the feeling of hot tears running down her cheeks, but those tears did not come to her.

He finished one foot and went to the other. He went painstakingly slow on this one.

M-O-N

"It's your fault your mother is like this, weak. You drained her magic when you were born. You took away the woman I loved,"

S-T-E-R

"IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!" The man screamed as his own tears fell from his eyes. Lucy couldn't help. She could only relive it.

The girl let out a heart-breaking, wild shriek. Then a woman came rushing into the room as the little girl fell unconscious.

"L-layla I-I," He was cut off as the woman named Layla freed the little girl.

"You hurt your own daughter. Do you feel no shame?!" Layla yelled. Tears cascading down her creamy skin.

"She's a monster. She changed you! She-"

"Save it." Layla said as she ran out the door and slammed it behind her.

The man sat there in shock.

He was speechless. When it came back to him he smiled.

"So you've corrupted her too, eh? I'll kill you, Lucille" He said as he broke out in a fit of laughter.

Lucy stared in shock.

"Mama-" She said softly. And the scene before her disappeared.

The man named Werrolyl broke out into a fit of laughter.

"Man! That was the best show I've seen yet!" He yelled as he stared at the girl in the orb. She was trembling, unable to see him.

"Why'd you do that!?" Sting yelled as he cried. He had forced Lucy, and the rest of them, to see one of her most painful memories. Minerva and Rufus were in a frozen state. Their mouths hanging open as they replayed it in their minds. Rogue had woken up during this, and had seen it all. He was too weak, too damn weak right now. He couldn't stop it. He gritted his teeth in frustration.

"Heh heh, this little kitty has some more juicy memories stored in her. How about we spice things up?" Werrolyl cackled as he spoke.

"DON'T YOU DARE!" Rufus yelled at him.

"Eh? You're in no position to object. I'm the stagemaster. The game plays by my rules. Boy!" He yelled as he dove Lucy into yet another painful memory.

'What was that?' Lucy asked herself. Looking at her feet, the brand was no longer there. She had long since scratched her feet raw in order to get rid of the terrible brand.

'Why?'

"Why must I go through such torture?" She yelled to herself. She looked around and realized that a new scene had risen before her. An alley. She saw herself and her mother being chased.

"NO! ANYTHING BUT THIS!" Lucy hollered as she realized when this was.

The two females were running from a tall man. A man named Jude Heartfilia.

The woman tripped over a rock in the alley, falling over and scraping against the pavement as she slid.

"Mama!" Little Lucy screamed as she froze in her tracks and spun around. She saw her mother's weak form on the ground. A menacing figure hovering over the fallen woman. The figure was holding a long, curved, cynical looking dagger.

"It's all your fault Lucy!" The man yelled as he raised the dagger over the fallen woman. His features twisted into a deranged expression.

He absolutely lost it.

The man drove the dagger into the woman's back and twisted it. Making a sickening squelching noise. Tears once again flowed down little Lucy's face.

"NO!NO!NO!NO!NO!" Lucy yelled as she lunged at the man, only to phase through him. She turned back to him.

"Run!Run Lucy!" She screamed out. Her arm outstretched towards the little girl; tears spilling down her chocolate brown eyes.

"Mamma?" The little girl softly croaked.

"Lucy! Forget about me! Please," she screamed, as her blood continued spilling out under that man's blade. She had never looked so desperate.

The little girl was shaking.

"Please," she whispered.

The girl reluctantly turned around and ran.

Lucy's legs gave out under her as she stared at the scene before her. As she watched the light leave her mothers eyes. As she watched the man smile.

Her body shook with sobs, but no tears left her trembling form.

The blackness returned.

"WHYYYY!" Lucy yelled from within the orb. Her friends all watched in complete speechless. Her father had killed her mother right in front of her eyes.

They watched her shake and scream. Their hearts broke listening to her pleas for her mother's life.

Werrolyl's cackles broke their thoughts as he laughed at their friend's sorrow.

Their sorrow was quickly replaced by insurmountable hatred towards that man. All their magic power spiked. The orbs containing them shattered. Werrolyl froze. Shocked.

The mage's auras alone could kill a man.

Rufus was the first to strike.

He took pride in seeing her suffer.

"MEMORY MAKE:NIGHT OF THE FALLEN STARS" He yelled. Hundreds of streaks of light rained down on the frozen man.

He didn't get any time to recover before Minerva came in.

He brought back those horrible memories to Lucy.

"Niel Wielg Mion Terse Elcantaeus: Yagdo Rigora!"Minerva shouted as she waved her hand s in a circular motion. A large totem-like statue floated above Werrolyl's head before it came crashing down.

It was Sting and Rogue's turn.

How dare he? Lucy had done nothing wrong to him!

"UNISON RAID:HOLY SHADOW DRAGON'S FLASH FANG"They yelled together with their fists outwards, as light and shadow formed in two massive spheres behind them. They brought back their hands and suddenly jutted them outwards as a whirlwind of light and shadow burst from their hands. Enveloping and completely destroying the last member of the Sense's Alliance.

The Sabertooth mages finished their mission and returned to Vironyl. Lucy Heartfilia was plagued by nightmares and depression for a year before she had returned to normal. Their lives continued as Sabertooth's reputation rose due to five insanely powerful mages. News of these mages traveled near and far. They were in the peak of their career when some events arose.

The return of one especially rowdy guild.

The appearance of a certain Grand Magic Games.

And the reappearance of a certain man.

Yayyyyyyyyyyyyy done. Now onto the next chapter. Whoot whoot. :)