Well… Chapter names got messed up so… I'll probably fix that later, yup. Maybe…? Nah, just gonna name this one chapter 4, because that's what it is!

Thank you so much for your reviews, follows, and favorites!

I know I said I'd be publishing probably next week, or the week after, but I have a storm of ideas that I must not lose!

Also, anybody wanna tell me who I should pair Lucy with? I've narrowed it to Mard and Jackal, Tempesta is out of the game… :T

Final thing, could you please check out my Instagram (if you have it) fairy_tail_bickslow98 (in case they aren't visible, where there are spaces after Fairy and Tail, place underscores! I'm trying to get to 1k followers by the end of the school year, and if you could like at least 1 photo (that you actually like), I would be grateful! Remember, I take edit requests whenever… Though they are EXTREMELY shitty.

Now, onto the story!

Okay, Fairy tail doesn't belong to me, anyone wanna help me steal it?


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


For hours, all the demons and Lucy were curled up in Ezel's giant form, hugging each other in their slumber. All except for Kyouka and Mard Geer.

Master Mard Geer, what are we doing, we are the mighty demons of Tartaros, so why are we hugging a suicidal girl? And why does it feel so good, being nice?

I'm not sure, Kyouka, but it is now our duty to watch over Miss Heartfilia and protect her with all our strength. Perhaps due to our natural loyalty, we automatically feel good, doing such kind things for her.

Well, I like her, I truly wish to be acquaintances with her.

I as well, Kyouka.

But, she is in pain, and it is our fault.

I'm sure we can help her, and she'll forgive us in good time.

I suppose. Master Mard Geer?

Yes, Kyouka?

She is twitching.

Silence in their minds for a few moments.

She's shaking now.

Still silence from the demon king.

Master Mard Geer, she seems to be mumbling, I believe she is distraught.

He was still silent.

Ezel woke up with a start, awakening the other sleeping demons -though he only got a grunt from Keyes, seeing as he was incapable of closing his eyes to 'sleep' per say- to their discomfort.

"Aquarius," Lucy mumbled.

Jackal's ears perked at hearing the name of the spirit who he "killed".

"Aquarius, I'm sorry, Aquarius." Lucy mumbled again, slightly louder.

She was silent for another few moments, and then suddenly started thrashing around, as if in pain. She gave a bloodcurdling scream, making the demons truly wake up from their first sleep in ages.

"Blondie, what the hell are 'ya doin'?!" Jackal demanded to the girl who's eyes were shut tightly, tears streaming down her face as they had the night before.

"Please! I'm sorry!" she continued screaming, ignoring Jackal's practically nonexistent question, "Please I'm sorry, forgive me, please stop!" Jackal's eyes widened, he had a sudden thought as to exactly what she was dreaming of.

"Please I beg of you stop! Don't go, Aquarius! Please stop it hurts, PLEASE!" she cried, before her involuntary screams ended, she let out one more "Sorry", shuddered, and fell into Ezel's tentacle "bed", with a 'thump'.

The demons stared at the once more peaceful girl, wondering what in the name of hell had just happened to her, and more so, why Jackal jumped straight out of Ezel's grip with a guilty look on his face, knocking down Tempesta in the process -who gave a disgruntled shift in his position- and disappeared in a shower of miniscule explosions, creating a flame where he once stood.


Lucy awoke on the floor, a pile of familiar books next to her.

The demons went back to their books, leaving her alone yet again.

Well, they probably have more important things to do than help me sort out my shit.

She got up, and picked up the books, making sure that all nine still had dog-eared pages in them, and put them gently on her nightstand. She moved to her bed, which had been unslept in the previous night, and made sure the sheets weren't all wrinkled.

She moved to her door, and slowly opened it, making sure to be quiet, though why, she didn't know, considering the demons had left. She stepped out of her room, and walked directly to her kitchen, going to the pantry and grabbed a box of strawberry cereal. She passed her table once more to grab some milk across the room in her small cooler, "Good morning, Miss Heartfilia," a familiar voice called.

"Good morning Mard," she replied, before doing a double-take, "wait, what? I thought you went back to your book!" she shrieked in surprise.
"Geez Blondie, chill, I have ears as sensitive as a dragonslayer's!" Jackal barked.

Lucy squeaked in surprise once more, only to actually look at the table, and see all the demons standing around it, although Ezel and Torafuzar were both squished against the north wall, both with a rather discomforted expression.

"Miss Lucy, your apartment is rather small," Seliah started, "It is? It's a lot bigger than my old one," Lucy mumbled, walking back to her cooler, and opening the lid, grabbing milk.

"The hell is that?" Jackal asked curiously, glancing at the carton of one percent milk, "Huh? You don't know what milk is?" Lucy asked in shock.

"Heard of it, jus' don' know what it is, and I sure as hell didn't know that it came in fancy containers like that," Jackal said, slightly embarrassed.

Mard told Lucy, "Since our memories from our past life as Zeref's worshippers have remained with us, though we technically have regenerated, we never needed to eat or drink, seeing as we are demons, our life source came, and still does come from our preexistent souls, we never bothered with it."

"Well, I think you should try it, it's rather good in my opinion, and you can drink it with all sorts of delicious food." Lucy informed them, still shocked that they had never eaten nor drunk anything in their entire existence.

They all looked at Lucy, continuing what seemed to be her regular routine with uncertainty. Did they really want to try some petty human need like eating?

"Well, do you want anything? I mean, I don't have a whole lot of stuff, but I have some cereal, I can make toast and pancakes, and I have some coffee and milk as well," she said, walking over to the pantry and looking through for the named boxes.

They all sat -or stood in Torafuzar and Ezel's case- before one of them spoke, "Would you be kind enough as to give me a single piece of toast."

More silence.

"Uh, yeah, sure, Tempesta, just gimme a minute," Lucy said, shocked by who said it, because in all honesty nobody expected any of the demons to accept, and even if they did, you would assume it would be Jackal, or Franmalth who accept.


After thirteen slices of extremely buttered toast, Tempesta finally stopped eating.

"That was surprisingly delicious, the creamy butter left a wonderful taste on my tongue, while the jam contradicted that order the butter created, the overall taste was wonderful like an army of the two fighting each other in my oral area, yet the jam conquered, but in the end, they both made peace, almost in complete harmony, to create an extremely memorable taste, which I swear to my book, I will not forget soon."

Even more silence.

Jackal broke the quiet tension, by barking out, "Oy, woman! Make me somma' this toast stuff too!" he looked directly at Lucy while saying this.

"Jerk! My name is, Lucy, not Woman!" she shouted, somehow now next to the hybrid, before screaming, "Lucy kick!" and hitting his chin with her right foot. He fell back, and hit the floor, his chair falling back with him.

Lucy was screwed.

"Eeeh! Please don't kill me!" she shrieked, or was at least ready to, until she heard him get up with a groan, "Damn, Sugartits, that actually hurt. I expected it to be all weak and babyish, but wow, I mean, I really felt that!" he stroked his chin, which was now housing a bruise that had somehow already formed, though it was only seconds after her foot had made contact with it.

"Huh?" Lucy exclaimed, was he actually complimenting her? "Umm, thanks… I guess? But aren't you gonna, I don't know, rip out my throat, tear out every piece of guts you can access from it, and use it to decorate my apartment like it's Christmas tinsel?"

"Wow, didn't realize you had such a mouth on ya', but nah, I really don' feel like getting my hands all bloodstained righ' now. Anyways, can ya' get to makin' me somma this toast shit now?" he asked, yet again.

"Uh yeah, sure, Jackal," she said quietly, all of the demons completely unaware that the white thing floating out of her mouth, was her very spirit, He's lost his mind, asking for toast, rudely, making me kick him, complimenting me on my kick, and asking for some more toast!


Twenty minutes later, all the demons -excluding Keyes- and Lucy had their fill of buttery toast. Torafuzar and Jackal had been very eager to try it after hearing Tempesta's description of it, and they weren't disappointed. Right after they tried it, and moaned at how delicious it was, Seliah and Kyouka glanced at eachother, as if making a silent agreement, then grabbed the toast.

Lucy sighed in disbelief, at least she had made around twenty slices, so they could all try some, but as she saw Mard Geer and Ezel move forward to grab some, she had second thoughts. Her discouragement was added to as Franmalth and Lamy moved to grab some toast, but hey, at least the demons were happy-ish.


After the demons finished all the toast, and even had a fight about who would get the last slice, Lucy decided to be daring, went to her room, grabbed the stack of books, opened their pages, and sent them all back.

Jackal protested, much like Lamy and Keyes, but she merely said, "With the power of demon summoning, I free you to return to your true form, go back to your pages, may your thoughts become ink, and your mind the pages of endless, charred white, with this power, I send you back to your true body, Revertere , daemones Tartari!

Before she left -after stacking the books on the kitchen table- to go back to her room, she whispered, "This is the first time I've been happy in ages. Thank you, Tartaros."

To her surprise, the books all glowed a beautiful red, like fire, a blue like the brightest ocean's gleam, and a black, like the night sky before dawn. They hummed, as if saying, 'You're welcome'. Lucy smiled, and left, going back to her room, to right a new chapter of her story.

This is going to be more tiring than I thought, but at least I have new friends… And a new source of inspiration!


That was a horrible chapter, I'm sorry, it's been a stressful time for me :T and I couldn't figure out how to end it… Sorry again!

Okay… I'm sorry for the chapter format, this is the REAL chapter 4, my friend went and deleted my chapter 2 / author's note… I'm mad at her :T

My new goal is 3 to 4 pages per chapter, unless I'm typing it on my phone, or Google docs and drive show me their true hatred for me, and cease to work, making me type it all on my notes, which won't allow me to copy-and-paste, or even download as a file. My computer life can be depressing sometimes…

Opinions on that chapter? Again, I rewrote it over and over again, and I've only just now realized, I seem to have a bad habit of completely forgetting about Torafuzar, Franmalth, and Tempesta… If I don't include them in a chapter, I deeply apologize.

Fun fact, I wrote this chapter, and the last chapter, all while in school, trying to avoid my school work that's piled up after being gone for a week. I'm part of the procrastination army, and I'm proud of it. Anyways, I think that's pretty good for me, considering I did it in one day, and did a (horrible job of) spell-check, punctuation check, and a check to make sure that I included all the characters.

Anybody know what movie I got the quote (that I probably didn't write correctly) from in the scene where Jackal got a "Lucy kick,"? If you do, props to you man!

Please continue to R&R, and again, I may or may not do LaLu week, I really haven't decided yet… :l

Post script: Yes, I did try to put latin in Lucy's incantation to return the demons to their books, but I only just started learning, and I'm fairly sure that it's improper grammar because I had to use google translate to learn the phrase after I wasn't sure if "return" would count as it's own word, or join another… And I'm still not sure, so if you speak latin fluently, or fluently enough, please please pretty pretty please with souls on top, tell me how to say it properly!

See you next time… or not...

-Bickslowchan