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Chapter 4: The Beginning of a Journey

Lucy P.O.V:

Lord Harwitt, huh? I've definitely heard that name before... Lucy contemplated amid screams of "I TOTALLY DESTROYED MORE HOUSES THAN YOU DID!" and "HEY, THAT ONE WAS TOTALLY MINE YOU BIMBO!" "WHO YOU CALLIN' A BIMBO?!" "YOU!"

"SHUT…UP! I'M TRYING TO THINK!" Lucy shouted.

There was utter silence for a minute, and then all hell broke loose yet again. These people are hopeless… she thought.

"Well, well, well what have we here? A member of Fairy Tail?" a voice crooned from behind Lucy.

Lucy stiffened, but didn't look back.

"Who's there?"

"Oh, I think you know very well who I am, Lucky Lucy Heartfilia."

Lucy grimaced. The mysterious man was right, she knew exactly who he was. "Now I remember who you are. Lord Harwitt, master of transparency magic, crazy lunatic looking for more magic power. You were in those most- wanted posters I was looking at two weeks ago."

"You are very clever…" the voice twirled around her with a gust of air.

"And you have much magic power. Just what I was looking for."

Suddenly, Lucy saw a smile with jagged- looking teeth appear right in front of her face. She showed no emotion and remained perfectly still. There was another thing Lord Harwitt was known for…he would kill anyone he deemed a coward and absorb all their life energy and magic. In other words, he was a mass murderer.

"And you are brave. You have all the qualities that I look for in a mage to steal magic and ability from. Now, it is time for you to die!"

Lucy stood up quickly, but the now-visible Lord Harwitt was using the vines nearby to bind her up. Lucy was soon tightly bound in the vine-cage, unable to escape or even wriggle. How is he using this kind of magic…? I thought he only had transparency magic!

"I can see the questions you have in your eyes. Yes, Lucy Heartfilia, I can use many types of magic. I have absorbed over two hundred mages' magic in the past year alone. I am the most powerful mage you will ever meet. Too bad I'm the last face you will ever see!"

"All those people…you killed them?! YOU MONSTER!"

"Monster I may be, but I still won't set you free!" he sing-songed, laughing crazily. Then, his face grew into a mask, erasing any emotion from his face. "Goodbye, Lucy Heartfilia."

At this, Harwitt's eyes started to roll back into his head, the whites of his eyes now showing. He started chanting an ancient spell and dark clouds gathered above him and Lucy. Lucy started to glow. The clouds swirled around her, enveloping her body, making it difficult to see her. The clouds were sucking the golden light coming off Lucy into their dark depths, while Lucy writed in pain. Her silhouette was eventually completely covered. All that could be heard was a terrifying mixture of her screams and someone's crazed laughter.

Natsu P.O.V in the next chapter everyone. Thanks for reading! I know it's starting a little slow but it'll get more fast-paced, I promise. Hint of NaLu, by the way. This might change later on to more than a hint ;).

-AJBerry