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This update is late, sorry guys! Please forgive me.

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Alright, I'm planning (and probably won't) on doing LaLu week 2016, so if I don't update again, that's because I'm working on those prompts, which I will most likely get in late…

Thank you guys for all your kind reviews, they really made me happy and encouraged me to write more!

Alright, now that life is better and I'm living with jet lag for probably the next couple weeks, I'll probably get an update in every 1-2 weeks, especially since I do skating, and my instructor hasn't forgiven me for all the lesson time I missed, and the school work alone is a nightmare ):T

Finally to clarify: Mard Geer, Ezel, Tempesta, Kyouka, Seliah, Jackal, Torafuzar, Franmalth and Keyes make up the 9 demon gates in this story, Lamy is part of Kyouka's crew, as she was in the canon anime/manga, and Silver is dead, no longer part of the 9 demon gates, there will only be mentions of him in this story, as well as possible flashbacks.

Anyways, on to the story!

I don't own Fairy tail, the show and it's respected characters belong to Hiro Mashima.


"That's it! I'm killing her!" Jackal growled, outraged, as he ran towards her bedroom door at a speed none of the other demons were capable of reaching. As he burst through the girl's door, most likely giving himself a splinter in the process, he saw something, that he never would've imagined was there.


In her room was the blonde, curled up in an egg shape next to her bed, her face and ears red, dry tear marks still on her cheeks.

There, on the wall farthest from him, was a giant bulletin board, seemingly full of random notes and pictures, but when looked upon close enough, could be seen holding information about all the previous Fairy tail members whereabouts.

He looked away from the board covered with tattered papers and photos, and gave a threatening look to the blonde facing the headboard of the wood bed.

"You shouldn't have said those things, you little cunt." Jackal growled, his gaze lowering to her ass, it's a shame she's so rude, otherwise I'd oggle over her form all day instead of kill her.

"Why not, furry bastard?" Lucy asked the canine demon, "It's not like you weren't going to kill me from the start, you don't need me as long as you're all out here of your own accord." she finished bitterly.

"Wait… What?" Jackal did a double take, Mard had just told him after they were first summoned that they needed the girl to stay alive, otherwise they would die, "Mard Geer told me that we needed you to stay alive."

"Well, it seems the all powerful demon king was incorrect, I'm surprised, though I can imagine all of you torturing me for your sick, twisted delight now." her voice hysterical, she rocked slightly, as if trying to comfort herself.

"Well, that certainly makes my mood better," he grinned, a ferocious glint in his eyes.

A crash sounded at the foot of the door, as all the demons fell on top of Ezel, who had fallen on the floor, followed by Torafuzar, Mard Geer, Lamy, Kyouka, Franmalth, Tempesta Seliah, and Keyes on top.

"Jackal," Mard Geer wheezed under the weight of 5 demons, though in all honesty Keyes and Lamy didn't weren't all that heavy, "Don't kill her, you imbecile!" he stood up, making the demons above him topple to the ground, landing on Ezel's -who somehow got up without knocking the demons above him fall once more- tentacles, "Unless you want to kill us all, idiot." Ezel grumbled, reluctantly helping Lamy up to her feet, seeing as she was crushed under the weight of his ginormous body.

"Oh really, I wouldn't be so sure, Master high and mighty Mard Geer," she mocked, "Really, you're supposed to be smart, so why haven't you read the book I practically laid out for you. Kill me. Be free. I don't care, nor will anybody else!" Lucy all but screamed, turning around and jumping off her bed to stand face to face -or as close to that as possible, seeing as she was about his shoulder height- with the etherious being.

"Just kill me already! Relieve me of my eternal pain, or are you too selfish to even do that? I thought you would've killed me by now, then you would be free to do whatever the hell you want, but no, 'Don't kill her' you said, because for some idiotic reason, you believe that I need to be alive for you to exist out here!" she cried, tears streaming down her face once more, "Please, just kill me already!"

Silence was brought upon the girl's room, and for what seemed like hours, the girl stood there, clutching her chest as if in pain, and crying more than she ever had during the time the demons were "contracted" to her.

"W-what did you just say?" Jackal stuttered, his face aghast at Lucy's request of sorts.

She fell to the floor, her knees and hands hitting the wood with a soft thunk, "Please, please I beg of you, just kill me." she asked again, her voice cracking as she hit the two words, the two words of death that not even demons could've imagined she would have uttered.

"I'm sorry, Miss Heartfilia," Mard started, for once looking completely sad, as if he didn't want her to say that she wanted to die, "but if we kill you, then we'll die as well."

"No, you won't," she croaked, her eyes shadowed by her golden hair, "you just need to be out when you kill me, all of you that I summoned, then you'll be free, so just kill me, please kill me!" she finished, crying yet again.

"I'm sorry, Miss Heartfilia, but we can't do that, even if we don't die, you are our master now. You are the master that the Dark Lord Zeref was to us, it is our code as loyal demons, that we never kill our masters." Seliah said, her face saddened at the fallen blonde.

"You've already taken away everything I loved, my family, my first friends, and other people that my friends cared about. Does the name, Silver ring a bell? You had no problem killing him off from the start, even though you just left him to use as a pawn, so why don't you kill me. I can be the next Silver, I can be a pawn, the one that's meant to be captured," she started, glaring at Keyes as she sat with her chin on her knees, before moving her head, and having her hair fall over her eyes yet again.

"And what about Igneel, Aquarius, Laxus, Freed, Bickslow, Evergreen, Gray, Natsu, and Wendy?" she asked quietly, as every name made the demons remember what they did in their past lives, they all flinched, "You're the reason that they all went through so much pain, or in worse cases, are dead.

"I'm sure that in the end you feel no remorse for me whatsoever, so just do it. Kill me. It'll all be over then, and I can finally be with those who left this world." Lucy finished, crying at the thought of dying and seeing her mother, father, even Michelle!

"Lucy," Kyouka sighed.

In one swift motion, the demon was down on her knees, hugging Lucy, muttering "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry," over and over again, repeating it like a mantra, as if it was the only thing that could keep her alive, "I'm sorry we did all that to you, we were doing as expected of us then, please give us another chance, maybe we can be friends. I know what we did is unforgivable, and punishable throughout all hells, but please don't die, when you summoned us, you were a beacon of light, you shined in a way I- we've never seen before, you're our reason to start over, none of us want to kill you, not even Jackal, no matter what that stupid little twat may say."

The others at the foot of the door stood there, confused as to what just happened, Kyouka, the demon who was second toughest, only to Mard Geer, was hugging a human girl, begging her not to kill herself, or have them kill her.

Hell must've frozen over the next minute.

Seliah followed Kyouka's actions, saying a shorter version of the apology leaving Lucy crying in a better way than before, "I truly apologize, Lucy, I hope we can be friends, and that we can help you get over this troublesome time."

Everyone followed suit, apologizing in some way shape or form, with Keyes putting his bony hand on her head, smiling a smile, that wasn't creepy, but oddly warm for a skeleton.

Lamy just hugged the girl and wouldn't let go, but Lucy didn't mind, it felt nice.

Franmalth had turned into a creature… Oddly resembling Plue, and sat on the spirit mage's lap, smiling.

Torafuzar had merely hugged her, but his gesture was kind, his warm embrace making her feel safe, something she hadn't felt in such a long time.

Tempesta walked over slowly, not nearly as delicately as the others, leaving a small dent by the front of the door when he first moved, but once he reached the blonde, he kneeled down and grabbed her right hand, saying quietly, "Please forgive me, I'm truly sorry for what I did to your comrades." He clenched her hand, as if he was in pain, but Lucy could feel all the care embedded in that one grip.

Ezel had walked -or perhaps slithered is the correct term- and picked up all the demons already hugging Lucy, and said girl, with his tentacles, gripping his giant arms all around them.

Mard Geer walked over to them at last, holding out his hand, as if asking for a truce in a battle of emotion. Lucy held out her hand, her tears gone at last, replaced by a smile that no matter how often they regenerated, could not be erased from their memories. Mard gripped her hand and used it as a lift to get on Ezel's tentacles, and once on, he hugged the girl, apologizing with a simple "Sorry," that meant the world to Lucy.

"Thank you," Lucy whispered, all previous desire to die was gone, she thought that nobody cared, and if nobody cared, what was the point in living on.

Jackal was on their right, gaping at nine demons all hugging the girl, the most ferocious beasts ever created, were comforting a human, "Has the world come to an end, or have they all really become a bunch of soft pansies?!"

As he continued staring at the ten figures all huddled together, only one opened their eyes, and with uncertainty, they called out lightly, "... Jackal?"

Lucy had just asked him -or at least asked him in a previously implied form- if he wanted to hug her with the other demons, hug her.

He shrugged, and walked over reluctantly, only to be pulled in by the other ten, getting a face full of tits, really he was squished in between Lucy's and Kyouka's. If he wasn't so caught up in wondering why the hell he was hugging the blonde bimbo to make her feel better, he would've had a nosebleed, only to later pounce on the mortal, ready to play with her all night.

"Thank you, Jackal," she whispered, before her eyes drooped significantly, her heartbeat calming as she was lulled to sleep, by ten demons of Tartaros.


Well, that was longer… Mainly since I didn't have to type it on my phone…

Anyways, please please please give me constructive criticism, I need it!

I'm sorry if this chapter was rather unclear, I kept on writing it over and over again, so some parts are kinda off… Sorry again!

Please continue to R&R, and I hope to have another update for you next week!

-Bickslowchan