Author's Note: Yuuki~desu! I'm back! Well, I know you people don't really care except for the fact that without me there won't be any more chappies... Whatever. This one is to celebrate my return. Enjoy! Oh, and don't forget to review!
Chapter 6: Goodbye, my old self
When she woke up this time, she felt relaxed. Now she knew where she was and what time it was.
After dreaming about her childhood days spent with her twin brother and three adoptive siblings, she was in a very forgiving mood but she would never forget, that she knew for sure. But her reminiscing of the past wasn't the only thing that made her forgive them. While she was sleeping, she had a vision. THEY were alive. She almost started crying but she managed to stop herself.
With such joyous thoughts swirling inside her head, she slowly sat up and waited until her eyes adjusted to the dark. Once she could see, she decided to make sure her appearance was presentable. Guided by her memory she made her way deeper into the cave while her only companions were her worries mixed with joy. She felt she wasn't ready to face her people she left 24 years ago but she just had to. She knew the best that there is no way to escape her destiny.
Finally, after walking for a few minutes that felt like eternity, she found what she was looking for. The thing that caught her attention from distance the first time she woke up – mirror.
She wasn't surprised at all to find that she still looked like 17-years old, beaten-up teenage girl. She just sighed. Her blond hair was absolute mess. Now that she had all her memories of her previous life, she decided that she hated her blond locks. Her eyes also looked pretty creepy. Her normally ordinary chocolate brown eyes now had cat-like pupils. Along with a thin white scar on her left cheek, only an inch from her eye, it made her face look eerie. Disappointed, she proceeded with her inspection.
It was time to scan her body. Body she was so proud of only seven years ago, was now by her standards too busty, which didn't look very attractive combined with countless scars from her blocking of Acnologia's attack. Right leg she lost in process had grown back during her unwanted sleep, but its skin was like baby's. Smooth and very gentle. As if in order to be in perfect contrast, her other leg was full of scars, of which the worst one went from her hip down to her knee. Even now, after the regeneration was complete, this scar remained pink and its ragged edges were easily visible.
She rembered having broken arms. She gulped down her fear of seeing them. She was scared they healed in a wrong way and that they are crooked. Fortunately, this was not the case. Only thin white lines decorated her forearms. She wasn't very happy when she saw them but she didn't mind them that much. It could have been worse, I guess...
Content with extent of her healing abilities, she decided to get rid of this sickening body. I'll just transform into my original human form... She clasped her palms together and rotated her hands until her fingertips faced the ground. Then ahe separated them. Threads of pulsing dark light appeared between her hands and started to extend and swirl around her whole body until almost every inch of her was covered by it.
She didn't want it to end just like that. She didn't want her other identity to disappear this way, so before her mouth was sealed shut, she breathed out words she prayed she never had to say. "Goodbye, Lucy Heartfillia."
After covering her, threads became one thick layer resembling dark sarcophagus with black, purple and deep blue swirls of energy moving on its surface. Suddenly, it started to give off bright white light. As it continued to shine, the sarcophagus was slowly dispersing like a mist, leaving behind person who used to be Lucy.
She was as tall as Lucy, but more slim. Also her skin was a tone lighter than Lucy's. Her hair was straight and white with numerous black highlights. Her eyes were violet and shimmered like crystals. Her pupils were still slit, but in its own mysterious way, it suited her perfectly. Unfortunately, all of her scars remained the same after her transformation so her cheek was still bearing the mark of pain.
Instead of her ripped clothes from Tenrou island, she was now wearing violet long sleeved medieval looking blouse with rectangular neckline and decorated by black laces; black cycling shorts, black and white striped thigh highs and knee high purple converses. As for jewellery, she was wearing big onyx ankh with amethyst in its centre, on silver chain. Her earrings had the shape of small silver ankhs. Her hands were covered by black combat fingerless gloves.
Back to my good old body. This was the second time in seven years that she smiled. She felt all of her magic power returning and as a result her body was so light that she started floating in the air.
She was sure at least some of her people felt this return of magic power and her transformation so she was just wondering who would be the first to come check on her. She smirked at the thought.
Everything is how it is supposed to be... Right at that moment, she heard a frantic voice calling her name. Name, by which she hadn't been called in a very long time.
"Luciana!"