Not really on time, but it's less than two weeks. I really respect all the writers who managed to finish their story. Beginning a story is pretty easy, but really finishing things up and make everything works. You really need to smash some blockades down while doing so. It's hard, it's really hard. And some pieces are just flowing my hand out. I praise those moments. But really. Respect for all the writers here and out of the world who knock down those blockades! (^_^) Again a some longer chapter than normal. But the story really needed it.
It's funny how this story actually started with a song and a creation of a character: Rose. The story made itself almost after that, with some struggling. You will find the song at /watch?v=hosCuzo6JKo for more feeling for a specific part in this story.
I don't own Fiary tail or the characters, I only own this story and the OCs. My apologize for my Grammar mistakes and I really wish you a lot of fun while reading this.
Reminder of last chapter: Rose is looking for Leoric. Lucy has problems with a sandman. Flemeth and Zero are on the loose and Laxus want to make it up to Lucy.
Kanaloa = that purple octopus creature from the clock arc.
Alakitasia = the area were Fairy Tail is now fighting against in the current manga arc.
-A Roar of a Dragon-
'Ah good you're awake.'
Sebastian looked up from his sickbed with half sleepy eyes. On a chair next to his bed sat Doranbolt.
'Sir?'
Sebastian wanted to sit up, but cringed back by the pain. Memories of his previous event startled him. 'Zero,' he mumbled and he looked at himself checking his injuries.
'He escaped.'
Sebastian was clearly panicking and glanced around him looking for a communication lacrima. His eyes rested on Doranbolt and his breath halted in his throat. Doranbolt's eyes were scanning him with a serious expression and his finger was rubbing a file in his hand.
'Sir?'
Doranbolt eyes stopped at Sebastian's eyes while he lifted up the file. 'Sebastian, has no last name, doesn't know his parents, is 29 years old, old member of the dark guild Death Psych. Have been working for the Council for 7 years, 4 years under my wing.'
Sebastian swallowed and sweat was crawling of his skin. 'Y-Y-You knew?'
'Yes, we knew. Wasn't it weird that you with that kind of history could work for the Council? Even if we didn't knew all the names of the members. The Council knew. I knew. But still…here you are, being treated like you are one of us. Have you ever wondered why they have placed you under my wing?'
Sebastian shook his head, still unsure what kind of point the man before him wanted to make.
'Because they thought I could control you.'
Doranbolt gave out a chuckle and looked darkly at the ground.
'In that way…isn't the Council any difference than those bastards who had been experimenting on you. They want to control you, use you. They wanted me to alter your memories for their facility. I'm still glad I haven't. Even if your powers are superb I wanted to see you with my own eyes. I wanted to see who you are without any fake memories. I have watched you work every day. I couldn't see a criminal. I noticed you had some trouble, like you never had communicated with normal people before, but I couldn't see a criminal. You have helped people and even saved some of them with your powers during your time for the Council. I have seen your smile while doing so. In my eyes that's the real Sebastian, not the person who has been written in this file.'
He placed the file on the desk near Sebastian's bed.
'I haven't stopped you in freeing your friend, because I trust your judgement. Please tell me that I have done the right thing. Please tell me that your friend Tyler isn't as wicked as his mother. Because when the guild Master of Fairy Tail approached me and told me about what Tyler had done, I was clearly doubting myself.'
Sebastian clenched his fist in the curtain. 'In his eyes, it was the fastest way. Who would have helped them? As long as they have each other…when Leoric is free, they planned to leave and begin a new life far away. Maybe Alakitasia, I'm not really sure. This land, these people remembers us of those times.'
'They planned to leave? Don't you want to follow them?' asked Doranbolt.
Sebastian shook his head. 'I don't want to run…it started as an idea. Infiltrating the Council, helping my friends escape. But as you said I'm lying here being treated like one of yours. I know I can build up a new life here.'
Doranbolt smiled. 'The Council will try to use you, you know.'
Sebastian nodded, knowing all too well that he will be hunted the rest of his live because of his powers. He prefer it to be here then an unknown place with no backup at all. He has his friends, but unlike them he was never punished for his sentences for seven years. He was able to make a live for himself, something he never could predict.
'I will try to protect you while you work under my wing, but in return I need your help,' said Doranbolt.
'With what?'
'Flemeth is alive and Zero has escaped. After Creco's event, we thought many mysteries were solved, but not every mage abduction was done by Creco. Your power is defensive. You can neutralize any kind of power. I need your help defeating them. I can understand that you don't want to…'
'No. Like I said I don't want to run. I have been a puppet for them my whole life. I greatly want to help you, but it will be suicide!'
'I know, that's why I wanted to ask for help. This isn't an opponent we should take lightly.'
'Who do you have in mind?'
Doranbolt smiled. 'Just some old friends.'
-0o0-
Rose, Melanie, Tyler, Wendy and Charle were walking in the woods. The rough environment couldn't be penetrated by her wheelchair so a minion of Rose was carrying her in his arms. They have been walking for hours, knowing for sure that they were getting close. Mrs. Lilly stopped and her metal ears were moving up and down.
'Mrs. Lilly?' asked Melanie.
The metal horse pointed towards her left.
Melanie looked at her mother enthusiastically. 'She said she feels a strong presence in that way, it could be daddy.'
Charle changed into her human form and looked into the future. Her face paled by the sight of the man they were going to meet. He wasn't human at all.
Rose laid a hand on Charle's shoulder. 'You saw him, my husband.'
Charle looked at Rose, trying to hide her fear and nodded. 'He's very unstable thought.'
Rose ignored her trembling, knowing all too well that her husband had that kind of an impact on strangers. This was one of the reasons she was hesitating to let them come. On the other hand it would be good for her husband, if the strangers would accept him. They walked forward while being on guard, but nothing happened. No traps, no guards, nothing.
'That's strange,' said Tyler. 'This is going to easy.'
Rose looked at the ground noticing a familiar magical circle that had been burned into the ground. Tyler stood next to her and looked at the coal looking magical circle 'Sebastian neutralizing magic, probably weeks ago. Even when they had hated each other, he still came to help him in his own way. A weird mind he is still,' said Tyler.
Rose smiled slightly. 'That's Basti alright. Leoric was the one who was forced to kill the most of our victims, while Sebastian was used to defend or to neutralize the victim of any magic. Sebastian always tried to lighten up the mood and Leoric wasn't pleased by that. They fought a lot, but in the end we had only each other.'
'You forgot to mention how Sebastian kissed you in front of Leoric,' smirked Tyler.
'That was really a long time ago, that was even before I started a relationship with Leoric. I don't think they are fighting over that.'
'You will be surprised.'
Rose was getting annoyed and signed to move forward. They walked further until they came to an open field that had the color of death himself. The all lively forest was the complete opposite of the scenery before them that was death, rotten and black. Wendy placed her hands before her nose. The smell was strong and disgusting. 'Rose-san where are we?' the little dragon slayer asked.
'The graveyard of the Second Trade War. We were standing on the boundary of two countries that had fought each other precisely on this spot for the rights of Trade of the country Fiore. A lot of guilds and Mercenaries were involved in this war and more casualties were fallen then on the First Trade War. One side won that battle, because of your First Master of Fairy Tail. Mavis Vermillion the Fairy Tactician. The deaths were praised as heroes, but the death of the losing side had been dumped here in this mass grave.'
Wendy felt proud of her First Master, but all the death that had been buried away convinced her more how much she hate fighting.
'I can think of many reasons why they have placed my husband right here,' said Rose after some time.
Wendy paled by the thought. 'Don't tell me Rose-san that he is death?'
Rose shook her head. 'He is cursed by his own powers, that will keep him alive. He is not really a human. He is unable to eat like a normal human being, he unable to live like a normal human being. He lives of energy, the magic flow that is all around us. He hated himself and was always so negative, but I fell in love with him. If you look behind his appearance and behind his hate, you can see a hardworking man that never gave up hoping. He was depressive that he only could take life. In the end after a lot of struggle he was able to give life as well.'
She looked at Melanie. 'He was able to create life and was able to give us a beautiful daughter. I saw how the negative cloud was being pushed away by the positive light that our daughter gave him. She was everything he wanted to believe. And it had been taken away from him for seven years.'
A tear was falling from Rose's cheek and she looked at the field that kept so many pain and death in one place. She looked up at her own minion, who helped her standing on her own feet.
Tyler wanted to help her, but Rose stopped him. 'I can do this.'
Rose moved slowly forward with fully concentration on her face. Her legs were still too weak. Holding balance was the hardest part, but she managed. Every step she took, every pain she felt was for him the man she loved. She could feel the undead laying like twisted potato sacks on each other under her feet. She breathed in and out, hoping that her voice would reach him. Hoping that she could give him new hope. She turned around and looked at Wendy and Charle. 'Please don't be afraid of him.' She closed her eyes, turning her face back to the death field in front of her and she began to sing:
A storm is loosed upon the sea
Whose eye is stained with tears.
A wretch Hell-bound and bent on blood,
the makings of the fearful's fears.
Wendy's eyes soften by Rose soft voice that was echoing through the air. The voice was carrying the emotions of pain, hate, anger but also love. It was a weird mixture of emotions that sound terrifying but beautiful at the same time.
The tide it stole away her grace,
the depths, they wouldn't claim her.
A toil begat by father's blood
This path was laid before her.
Wendy could feel how magic was gathering in a large area in front of her. She could feel the trembling in the ground, unsure of what was to come.
Redemption borne by brigand's blood
A blight upon the darkness.
The pact embraced, a road unsought
The Maiden of Death won't be unwrought.
The trembling became stronger and Charle was standing against Wendy, clearly scared of what had to come. In the black field in front pushed an army of skeleton's a coffin made of massive heavy steal out of the ground. Wendy eyes widened by the large numbers of human skeletons that came crawling out of the mass grave.
Her wrath is known throughout the black,
the gardens of death she is tending
Vengeance is her only ward
Beware the blood red rose's thorn.
The large army of skeleton's placed the heavy coffin on the ground and stood still. The massive army existed of around 250 man who were standing around the coffin, waiting for their Master's command. Rose looked at her daughter. 'Melanie, can you open that coffin for me, sweaty?'
Melanie looked at Mr. Chaply and nodded. Mr. Chaply changed into a Volcan and fire was crawling out of his armor. He walked towards the coffin who was standing vertical on the ground. The swords in his hands was firing up and pierced carefully through the steal of the coffin. The steal were melting away by the unnatural heat and dropped like liquid on the ground. The door from the coffin was carefully undone and was thrown away. Charle was now sure of what she saw in her vision was actually real. In the coffin laid a skeleton. Multiple magic blocking chains were trying to interrupt the man for using his magic, but even with so many blocking chains, you could see that he had tried to absorb the life essence of the chains itself by the marks on the chains.
'Rose why did you save me?'
Rose could hear the pain in his voice, the hope he had so many years ago had been crushed in the seven years he had been stuck in that coffin. Away from them, away from the light, away from the life he wanted to live.
'To make life,' Rose said with tears in her eyes while glancing at their daughter.
Melanie stood before the coffin looking up at her farther. 'Daddy, you look weird.'
'M-e-l-a-n-i-e,' Leoric slowly said, clearly unknown if this was real.
Mr. Chaply cut down the chains, while Mrs. Lilly prevented Leoric for falling. Rose slowly moved forward towards him. Touching the side of his bony cheek with her hand. 'You look beautiful,' said Rose.
Leoric started softly to laugh. 'You always knew how to light my mood.'
'Sebastian was really good at it.'
Leoric looked around him noticing the missing member. 'Where is that bastard?'
'Keeping an eye on Zero,' said Tyler. 'Hi Leoric, good to have you back.'
Leoric nodded in appreciation. His eyes glanced at two girls who were keeping their distant. The blue haired girl was struggling and the cat girl was trembling on her feet. He looked at himself, feeling the pain of rejection. He looked up when he noticed the blue haired girl walking in his direction.
The little girl stood before him unsure of where to look. She finally looked at him straight in the eyes, or hollow socked from her perspective and bowed slightly her body. 'I-I-I-I'm W-W-Wendy M-Marvel, n-nice to to to meet y-you.'
'I-I'm Leoric.' It was an awkward beginning, but he felt the warm energy from that little girl's body. The warm feeling of healing. A wonderful magic, something he envy, but also something he would never lay a hand on. A magic that could give life and warmth. Something so contrary of himself.
Wendy turned around and looked at Charle who was still trembling on her feet. 'Come one Charle, it's very rude to not introduce yourself.'
Charle came walking slowly towards them, flinched back when the skeleton was looking straight at her. He is not different then the minion of that woman, he is not different then the minion of that woman.
Tyler tried to ignore the cats mind. He hated what the cat was thinking, but he respected that the cat was trying her best, so he just kept quiet. Charle stood before Leoric, still afraid.
'Nicko weird!' yelled Melanie behind Charle. The cat girl yelled out and was shocked so hard by the surprise attack that she without intention returned into an exceed. Melanie caught the cat and was holding her close to her own body. 'She is soft!'
Leoric had never seen and exceed before and looked at how his daughter was petting the cat in her arms. He extended his arm and noticed the fear in the cat's eye. He looked at the blue haired girl who was nodding in his direction. His fingers were touching the soft fur and petted the cat. Charle felt embarrassed of the situation and felt unsure how to speak.
'This is Charle,' said Wendy finally. 'Charle say hi?'
'Y-y-y….h-h-h…c-c-old.'
'Huh?' asked Leoric.
'What did you say Charle?' asked Wendy.
'Y-YOUR HANDS ARE TOO COLD!' Charle finally yelled.
Rose laughed at the flush on the exceed face. Knowing that the cat was slowly getting used to the appearance of her husband. But there was no time to waste. Leoric looked at his hand, smiling slightly at the interaction between the group members.
'Leoric,' said Rose with a fierce look in her eyes. Leoric looked at her, noticing the conflict and struggle in her eyes.
'I know it takes time before you are your old self and I understand that you're not ready for a fight.'
She looked at her brother, who wasn't going to look for answers in her mind but waited for the answers to come. 'I think Flemeth is still alive and I want her dead or locked away for good. Leoric I know how much pain she had given you, so I'm not asking you for your help. Instead I want to ask you to look after our daughter and to run as far as you can.'
Tyler looked at his sister with unbelieve. 'But I killed her! I have killed that ugly mind, who calls herself a mother!'
Rose shook her head. 'No, you didn't. She made you believe you did. It was an illusion, a trick of your mind from the start. If you don't believe me, then look in my mind and tell me if you still think she is death.'
Tyler looked in her mind and saw the conversation with Sebastian, he saw her thought why she had the theory that their mother was still alive. Anger and hatred was visible on his face and it was the final clue for Rose that he believed her.
'I'm still unsure of why she is letting us walk so freely now, but I can guess it won't be for long. And before she takes control over our lives I want to take her out for good.'
'I'm coming with you,' said Tyler.
Rose nodded knowing that it would be impossible to stop her brother for coming.
Leoric shook his head. 'Rose, she will take over your mind, you can't defeat her.'
Rose looked at him. 'I know, but I can try. I can't live in peace with the thought that she is still walking around freely. I do this to protect us, to protect my child.'
'But what are you going to do. Walking straight in, hoping that she wouldn't notice you. This must be planned out.'
'I can keep her mind out of our head, while Rose's minions will kill our mother. It's simple as that,' said Tyler.
'If you really think that is going to work, then you really have become stupid in those seven years I know you,' said Leoric angry.
Rose looked at her husband with a pleading eye. 'Leoric please get Melanie to safety.
'I just have you, now I'm going to lose you again,' said Leoric with pain in his voice.
Melanie released Charle from her grip and ran towards her mother.
'Melanie want to go too, Mommie! Don't leave me, Mommie!' yelled Melanie with teary eyes.
Rose started to cry and looked at Tyler who could hear her mind. Tyler raised her arm. 'The Sleeping Mind.'
The light were gone in their eyes. Leoric, Wendy, Charle, Melanie and the Volcans were just standing still, not moving a single limb.
Rose kissed her daughter on the forehead that was followed by a kiss on Leoric's lips. 'I'm sorry, but I really need to do this, for you, for her future, for our future.' Rose looked at his brother. 'How long do we have?'
'They will wake up in two hours.'
Rose nodded and gave her family one more glance.
'Ready?' she finally asked.
Tyler nodded. Rose left the field being carried by one of her minion, while the other minions kept following her. Tyler gave a last glance at Wendy and Charle. 'Be safe little minds and thank you.'
-0o0-
Laxus was tapping on his desk, while looking at his paperwork. Not a single ink drop has touched the pages in front of him in the last hours. He feels nervous knowing that she was in the building. Her smell, her voice, it was making him crazy with guild. Lines to ask for forgiveness was repeating itself over and over inside his head. Forgiveness? Hell yeah he would ask for forgiveness. He had been in denial for so long. And when he finally had noticed what this warm feeling meant it was already too late. What should he do in this kind of situation? Flowers? Chocolate? Laxus growled while he rubbed his hand on his head. He looked up when Evergreen was knocking on the door.
'Come in,' said Laxus.
'Master Laxus-sama, you're apparently busy? This isn't my job you know, I'm not an housewife,' said Evergreen while placing the plate with food with annoyance. She lent on Lucy's desk and looked at her nails. 'Well I prefer this than searching in that boring library. Do you know how annoying papercuts are, especially right under your nails.'
Laxus couldn't hear her rambling about…well what she was rambling about. He just felt it, the hit in his face. Maybe the solution for his problem.
'Ever, what does Elfman do, when you are really mad at him?'
Evergreen looked at him confused. 'He gives me a gift…'
'What kind of a gift?'
She crossed her arms and slammed her fan against her hip. 'Statues of stone, sometimes of marble of himself. It's really stupid. I love statues really, but after so many fights, he really need to think of something else.'
Laxus was now really confused. Should he give Lucy a statue of himself.
Evergeen noticed the fight of her master's mind in front of her. She walked towards his desk and looked at him straight in the eye while her fan was getting higher in the air. She smacked Laxus on his head.
'What?'
'You man are always thinking too much. Tell me with who did you had a fight?'
Laxus growled slightly but admitted that it was hopeless. 'With Lucy,' he muttered.
Evergreen eyes widened. 'What was the fight about?'
'What does it fucking matter, we had a fight, case closed.'
'It does matter, to me it is. Do you want my help or not.'
Laxus sighed and felt his whole body crunching in each other. 'What I tell you here, is not leaving this office.'
Evergreen rolled her eyes with the obvious statement. Man are mostly not open when it's something that is involved with the other sex, except if the man is gay. But she never have seen Laxus swinging that way. And if he was swinging that way, then he was really at hiding it.
'Lucy had confessed her feelings for me and I told her to leave.'
Silence was filling the room. Evergreen kept staring at him, like she was deaf. Had she heard it right. Wait what? She smacked him one more time with her fan and sighed.
'You deserved that, you know. Normally I would be laughing with joy, how you humiliate other woman, but this is Lucy. She was the first one who forgave us for Fantasia and didn't had that annoying look in her eyes what clearly was telling us that they feared us. I can't forgive you until you have said sorry to her!' she said with an obvious glare.
'That's the whole point I want…to make her mine.'
Evergreen eyes widened and a smirk was getting visible on her face. She hide her mouth behind her face and kept glancing at Laxus. 'My my. Master Laxus-sama you have feelings for her.'
She could feel the tension in the air. She was playing with electricity right now, but she didn't care.
'I'm really happy for you, you never had a girlfriend in your whole life for so far I know you. You were always an one night man. Never staying to long with the same woman.'
'She is…' said Laxus to explain, but didn't had the time to finish his sentence.
'…different,' said Evergreen, knowing all too well how this man brain was working. 'What you need to do is telling what's on your mind. Gifts are nice, but you don't want to give her the impression that you can buy her feelings. You have broken her heart and you are the only one that can heal it by telling how sorry you are. Talk to her when she is alone. It's really uncomfortable to speak with your love who had broken your heart in public. When you guys are alone tell her your feelings. It doesn't matter how you say it, your feelings will reach her I'm sure of it. Just follow your instinct. Go with the flow.'
'Are you sure that's gonna work?'
'It did for me. It didn't matter how many times I chased him away, he somehow always got back to me.'
Laxus stood up, breathed in and out and moved out of his office.
'Thanks Eve,' he said while giving her the usual wave.
'Don't come back crying, solve it like a man.'
Evergreen eyes followed him and looked back at the plate of food. 'I hope he got an umbrella, it's going to rain.'
Laxus was walking towards the library and knocked on the door. He opened the door and looked around. He saw Freed, Mavis, Levy and even Erza spitting books like there was no day tomorrow, but no Lucy.
'Do you guys know where Blondie is?'
Erza looked up at him. 'She went home to rest and asked me to help searching info about a Sandman. Why? What's wrong? Should I bring her a message?'
Laxus shook his head. 'It's not that important. How does the research go.' Well it is important but not for them. He had been so occupied in his own mind that he didn't noticed her leaving. Well hopefully she is alone, makes it less complicated for him.
'Not much, there are clues about how to defeat a Sandman in your dreams, but they are very skeptical about it,' said Levy disappointed.
'Well keep searching, let me know if you find something.'
They nodded and Laxus closed the door. He walked out of the guild leaving the brawl alone, knowing that Erza would stop them if it would getting to rough. He sniffed in the air. The scent of strawberry and vanilla was crawling in his nostrils but also the scent of freshly arriving rain. He cursed behind his teeth and looked at the dark clouds that was filling the air.
'I need to hurry.'
He used his lightning form to blast himself towards her house. Ignoring the people who were looking at him for his sudden appearance and only concentrated his sentences on her apartment. He couldn't hear Lucy's heartbeat in her room, but her scent was still fresh. 'Shit. I have just missed...'
He stopped when her voice was reaching his ears. 'Plue you're right. Those clouds really look dark. Let me just grab an umbrella just to be sure.'
Lucy was smiling at her little spirit who was walking besides her. It wasn't long before their eyes finally met. Laxus noticed how her usual smile just vanished in thin air. Her eyes were screaming of pain, a lot of pain, but also a little bit of fear. Laxus wanted to open his mouth, but before he could say anything, she started to run away. The lightning dragon slayer couldn't understand what was happening. She was running away from him. 'Shit.' He cursed and took a sprint.
Plue ran after his Master, but after a couple blocks of running, tiredness overcame him and he went back to the Celestial realm. Lucy looked back and noticed how Laxus was catching on to her. Her heartbeat was getting faster and her breathing was getting shorter. The adrenaline was filing her vines. She could feel how the first drops of rain was touching her skin. Why was this happening? She was able to avoid him the whole day, but now he was standing in front of her doorstep. She raised one of her hands. 'Heaven's Gate.'
Laxus cursed when he saw her disappearing and he noticed how her scent was faltering. He knew how hard it would be to follow her now, but he also knew that Lucy couldn't stay hidden in that world. He changed into his lightning form and blocked out any healthy reasoning. He could never guess which direction she went, so he pushed it on mere luck. Or more like his guts. And as long as he knew was his gut always right and this time was no different. In a split second he noticed the familiar gate opening and closing in front of his eyes. He went left and noticed the same action of gate opening and closing.
Lucy couldn't understand. How in hell had Laxus managed to find her. Was she really that unlucky. It didn't matter which direction she went, he just followed her. She even stopped and noticed how the lightning stopped in the other world. Even Loki, who came out because of her stress level couldn't stop him. He was just too fast, but she wasn't going to giving up that easily. She was not ready to face him, not after that. She would break in tears for sure. She gasped for air and noticed how the chasing was tiring her up. She opened a portal and went back to the real world. She ran on a hill somewhere outside Magnolia, hoping to hide somewhere. Maybe the lake next to the hill could cover her steps. She gave that plan a cold-shoulder when she noticed how heavy the weather had become. Her clothes were wet from the rain that was falling from the sky and the grass was getting slippery under her feet. And then it happened, her feet was slipping away from under her legs and she fell downwards the hill. Her eyes widened and everything around her felt like time had stopped.
'Lucy!'
Laxus grabbed her in midair and changed back into his lightning form. The lightning crashed on the end of the hill, near the lake. They were both heavily out of breath. Lucy laid with her back on the ground with her bottom half between Laxus legs, while Laxus was bending over her, leaning on his hands that was placed besides her shoulders. Laxus could smell salt and knew that she was crying under the arm that was covering her eyes.
'What do you want!' Lucy cried out.
Laxus heart was stinging by that cry. He had really hurt her. Rage for his own stupidity had been pushed back. This was not the time for that. Without thinking he grabbed her arm, pushed it away from her face and kisses her on her lips. He could feel resistance in the beginning, the smell of salt was even increasing, but after a couple of minutes the resistance was falling and in the end he could feel how she was kissing him back. The taste of strawberry was never so delightful. It felt like a drug that kept screaming to him to taste it. The familiar warm feeling was growling with pleasure because of this one touch he never though could be so great. He didn't wanted to stop but he needed to. Laxus stopped the kiss, also knowing that it was safe to do so.
'I'm sorry…'
Lucy eyes widened when she saw the pain in Laxus eyes. Her mind had been screaming towards her to run, but when she had felt those lips her mind had been one blanc page. Nothing came to her mind, she was just enjoying the touch and the taste. Little sparks that was increasing the pleasure was pulling her in like a magnate. But now she was unsure what the man in front of her wanted. The mask that had been covering his emotions was gone. The wall she forcefully hated. The wall that had been pushing her away was gone. In front of her was a man that looked broken in the depth of his heart.
'I'm sorry for being an idiot. I shouldn't have told you to leave.'
'Indeed you shouldn't,' said Lucy with pain.
'I hope you can forgive me…'
Lucy stared at him with tears in her eyes for a long time, unsure of what she felt, unsure of what she wanted to say. Her breathing was getting slower and her heartbeat was finally able to rest after the long workout. The blanc page in her mind was finally able to fill with the words, she never thought she would ever had to say to him. 'It will take time for me to forgive you. I'm glad you said sorry, thank you, but there is one thing I don't understand. Why did you kissed me?'
'Wasn't that clear,' said Laxus feeling uncomfortable by that question.
'It's more like really confusing.'
'I-It's b-because I love you ok! Fuck! I'm not good with this.'
Lucy didn't know if she should be confused or just happy that he said it. She didn't wanted to think about it. She finally heard the words she eagerly wanted. 'I love you too,' she said after giving him a short peck on his lips. 'But I'm still mad at you.'
Laxus body was relaxing, but still on guard unsure if this was real. He looked up sensing some unexplained magical pressure. There was no sound, sight or scent of a person approaching them, but he knew something was wrong. He could feel the magical pressure inside his head that somehow felt familiar to Tylar's Mind control magic, but far more stronger.
'Shit! Lucy get out of here.'
Lucy looked around her as much as she could and wanted to stand up, but the very hand of the man that was telling her to get away was holding her down.
'I can't your hand, Laxus…!'
Laxus looked down at his own hand, he had no control over and he saw his other free hand grabbing her at her troath. Horror was filling his vines. He pulled with all his might, but it didn't matter what he did his body wasn't moving. It was even grasping harder and he saw how Lucy was gasping for air. Loke and Virgo blasted through their own gates unclear why Laxus wanted to harm their Master.
'Laxus!' Loke yelled and his fist were lighting up. He wanted to punch Laxus out of the way, but before his fist could make the contact was his attack interrupted. His fist was caught bare handed by a man with gray half long hair and red eyes. Lucy eyes widened with fear.
'Z..z.e..r..o?' she gasped.
'Dark Capriccio.' Zero grinned and fired a of darkness out of his hand. Loke was pierced right through his heart and started to disappear. 'L-Lucy.'
Virgo went underground, hoping that the surprise effect would help her saving her Master, but when she was in Zero's range he just pushed his hand in the ground and pulled Virgo at her throat out of the ground. Zero waited for the scream that never came, he looked at the pink haired maid in his hand, but no emotion could be read. 'Weak and boring!' He squashed his hand. Virgo's neck broke and was sent back to the Celestial realm. Zero looked down smiling wickedly by the tears that was leaving Lucy's eyes. He noticed how she tried to grab one of her keys between her own leg and that of Laxus, what was obvious in her way. Zero kicked her free hand away from her keys and stood on it. Lucy wanted to yell from the pain, but she knew how much Zero loved the scream of his victims. Her mind was panicking, it didn't matter what she tried. It felt like she had a blackout. The fear and adrenaline rush was blanching her mind. The only thing she wanted was to live. Unfocused by the lack of air she tried to struggle out of Laxus grip.
'Leave her alone!' yelled Laxus who was losing his mind.
A purple butterfly was flying in front of him, getting his attention. The butterfly flew to a certain area where more butterflies were gathering around. The butterflies changed into a woman with brown long hair. The illusion barrier what was covering around them was splintered in pieces. Flemeth looked down at her new subjects smiling at the horror in Laxus eyes.
'How does it feel to kill your love of your life,' she said.
Laxus glared at her with all the hate he had. He could feel how Lucy's breathing was faltering while her body was struggling under him. 'STOP THIS!'
Flemeth smile grew at
'Only if you beg.'
'Please stop, I beg of you. Don't kill her.'
Flemeth laughed at the pitiful sight in front of her and looked at his face. Laxus glare of hate changed into fear when he noticed his hand was strengthening around Lucy's neck. The struggling under his body had stopped and Laxus looked at the unconscious body of the girl he had confessed his love for a couple minutes ago. The hatred and fear was growing and roaring inside of him. He can't remember how but he could feel magic rising like never before. He had been in dragon force before, but never like this. Scales were forming on his skin and red electricity was filling the air, getting more powerful by the rain of the storm.
Flemeth laugh stopped and looked serious at him. 'You want to electrocute the girl together with us!' Zero looked at his wife who was flinching back. She could feel the struggle to keep the dragon slayer under her control. 'Zero! Knock him out. The control is slipping.'
Zero saw how Laxus had managed to get his hand away from neck of the Maiden of Stars and used Dark Capriccio to blast the dragon slayer against the hill.
'Dark Gravity,' said Zero.
The gravity changed and Laxus could feel how his body was pushed against the ground. With the lack of his own body and the gravity that felt like the weight of a Kanaloa was sitting on him he needed to give everything to make it out of there. With all his strength he tried to push his body up. Zero saw how Laxus was trying to escape, but didn't sweat. He kept his Dark Gravity active while even strengthening it. Laxus face was slammed against the earth and grass was getting in his mouth.
'Killing them would have been much easier,' said Zero a little bit bored.
Flemeth sighed. 'I hope they are worth the trouble.' She concentrated more on Laxus mind, trying to find out what was pushing her away. She could see a large dark shadow chained down lurking in his mind, while a little old man was standing next to it.
'I will not let you harm my boy,' said the old man.
'Who are you?'
'A farther, who will protect his children at any cause!' The little arm of the old man grew larger until it was the same size as the arm of a giant. The large hand charged at Flemeth and pushed her out of Laxus mind.
Zero saw how Flemeth fell on the ground. Pain and anger was written on her face.
'I will show you pain you have never seen before!' she yelled.
A dark purple circle shown itself above Laxus body. 'Mind Seal!'
Laxus screamed of pain and Flemeth could see how the old man in his mind was getting chained down by her spells. Without anything interfering her now she finally moved deeper into her subject's mind. Taking control of the whole body.
Zero noticed that the struggling had stopped and a smile was growing on his wife's face. He stopped his dark gravity and looked at how the dragon slayer was slowly standing up. The light in his eyes were gone and the scales on his arms were disappearing. He walked towards them and grabbed Lucy who was still lying unconscious on the ground. Like a sack potatoes was Lucy body thrown on Laxus shoulder.
'What was that?' asked Zero curious.
Flemeth looked at her husband and then back at the Lightning Dragon Slayer mage. 'I'm not sure, I really like to find out.' She kept concentrated, feeling how the chains were in their place. A roar of a dragon was screaming in Laxus mind. She looked careful and the large shadow that was lurking in his mind. She noticed how the chains that had been laid around the large creature was weakening, now that the old man had been chained down. She cursed, while using her own chains to hold the creature down.
Curious about that large shadow and the old man in Laxus mind? Well I am. I hope it's obvious who they are. Otherwise you will get to know it in the next chapter. ;-)
And Laxus finally confessed his feelings for Lucy. Yeah party!...only Flemeth and Zero were interrupting the happy vibe, aww :(
I know the possibilities that Lucy could use her Heaven's gate to run from that situation were really high. But I hope it was convincing enough that the fear in that kind of situation was blocking her mind to come with that solution. You know how some animals just stand still in fear when a predator is going to kill them. I wanted to use that, then the surviving instinct for her to run away together with Laxus. It sucks for them I know. I could use Zero power Genesis Zero maybe to alter the dimension. But for me that wasn't convincing enough.
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