Hi guys! Chapter 3 is here, a little longer this time XD Thank you guys again for all the positive support you've all given me. I hope you enjoy this chapter.
Chapter 3 (The Chaos Dragon Slayer)
Lucy's pov,
I stood at the motel counter a little bored. The clerk seemed to be taking all the time in the world getting a receipt for my stay. I sighed and sagged. It was only 9am, my encounter with Acnologia and his offer still wavering in my thoughts
I traced the pattern on the back of my right hand softly. Studying the lines that imprinted my skin almost like veins.
I was wearing a scarf and a shirt that had a long sleeve on the right and a short sleeve on the left to cover my mark. I had lift my hood of my cloak out of my face for the time being. I didn't need people becoming suspicious.
"Here you go miss." I looked up at the clerk, a lady about twenty. She had blue hair and wore glasses in front of her brown eyes.
I stiffened at the resemblance to Levy. I opened my mouth, trying to save myself from this situation but nothing came out.
The lady frowned and my eyes drifted over to her name tag. Levi. My eyes widened even more. My grip on the side of the counter tightened and I forced myself to stand up. "Y-yes?" Levi looked at me questioningly but handed me the receipt. "Are you ok- Lucy?" She asked glancing at my receipt.
My breath caught in my throat. Lucy. "Your name..." The girl looked at her name tag and frowned. "Oh I'm sorry, I shouldn't have called you by your full name. My name is Levi." "Levi?" I croaked. She nodded.
"McGarden?" I barely whispered. The girl looked at me confused. "McGarden?" I blushed. "Sorry. I shouldn't have asked." I stuffed the receipt in my pocket and ran out the door. The fading sound of her voice wavering behind me.
Sweat plastered my forehead as I realised what I had just done. It wasn't until I calmed down when I realised the girl didn't even look like my ex-best friend.
Her hair was the wrong shade of blue, she didn't have the right eyes. Hers was cloudy, foreign. Levy's was clear, familiar. The eyes I came to know for eight years. Now... Now...
"You blew it." I muttered. Tears fell onto my cheeks, falling onto the cement pavement. I wiped at them furiously but it didn't work and I fell apart right there, in the streets of Magnolia.
Normal pov,
The sun shone weakly in the skies above Magnolia. Making yesterday's snow glitter like shinning crystals. Lucy Heartfilia hiked up the last hill before entering the forest separating Magnolia from the rest of Fiore.
Lucy's figure couldn't help but look lonely, her back to city. Her face obscured by her cloak. A bag slung over her back and her keys jingling every step of the way as she walked out of Magnolia, out of her old life.
Far away in the Fairy Tail guild,
It was another day at the guild only this time, the air felt heavy, tense. The whole guild was silent, with the occasional whisper here and there. This was unusual for Fairy Tail and they weren't the only ones bothered by it.
"Ok, that's it. It's too quiet in here." Everyone looked up from whatever they were doing and stared at the Ice-Make Mage. Silence answered him, Gray couldn't help but feel irritated. Usually a statement like that would have earned him a fight at least, specially from the hot tempered fire-mage, his rival, Natsu.
But Natsu was too busy drinking to care. The youngster for once was the one cleaning the guild off it's booze, not the guild's drunk, Cana Alberona.
"Oi, Natsu stop hogging the booze!" Cana yelled drunkly from her perch. Natsu didn't even flinch and continued to down the brown liquid. In the end, it was Fairy Tail's strongest female wizard, Erza Scarlet who stopped him. She grabbed the cup Natsu was lifting to his lips and slammed it onto the bar's wooden table.
The cup shattered with a clang and everyone looked up again. Natsu stared at his team mate angrily. "What the hell Erza?!" Erza glared at him. "Your being a fool, moping over... Her like this." She snapped.
Natsu scowled. "Leave me alone will'ya?! She's gone and she won't come back. Don't make me feel even worse then I already do." "Do you think she would have wanted this?" Erza asked. Addressing the whole guild now. "Would she have wanted us to mope like this?" Everyone frowned, some close to tears at the mention of their ex-member.
"Lucy was always so bright and happy around us, even when she was suffering she pulled it out the worst situations. Maybe we will never get her back, but at least we can fulfil her last wish. Fairy Tail will put up a good fight, we won't give up so easily on our nakama ever again. Fairy Tail will do Lucy Heartfilia proud!" Erza yelled, the Fairy Tail symbol she pointed above her head.
For a moment everyone stared dazed at Erza's words. Awkward silence was cast over the guild, until another voice piped up. "That's right! We won't ever let out nakama down ever again!" The Wind Dragon Slayer said her fingers pointed to the sky. Her exceed quickly followed.
Suddenly the guild was filled with Fairy Tail symbols in the air. Gray, Gajeel, Pantherlily, the Rajinshu, Laxus, Mira, Elfman, Cana, the rest of the guild, even Natsu in the end. But someone was missing.
In the very corner of the guild, a figure stood slouched. Grumbling angrily. Fury coursed through her veins. The white haired girl sneered Lucy's name continually. The two syllables echoing in her mouth. Lu cy. She held her hands tightly around her, fingers clenched in fists.
Lucy ruined her life, took her beloved and the rest of her family. She was alone. There was no denying it. Lucy Heartfilia had surpassed her in ways she didn't even cared about until now. Lisanna Strauss was angry. Love made her do terrible things, but that wasn't the reason why she walked into the front of the crowd and began to laugh.
Lucy's pov,
The sun was just beginning to set when I arrived at Crocus, the capital of Fiore. I stood at the entrance of the city nicknamed the Blooming Capital. Almost every lamp post and shop was flower themed. Colours exploded everywhere and in the far distance, the great castle of Mercurius, the home of Toma E Fiore, the king of Fiore glowed in shinning colours.
I couldn't help but feel a little nervous, this was the first time I've been in a city this large and had this much flowers.
I walked around the city, staring in awe at the new sights. I was circling the city when I noticed a hulking building settled at the edge of Crocus. It's interior entirely made of stone and four pillars that were shaped as four separate wizards. A sign at the front called it Domus Flau.
It was the battle arena used every year for the Grand Magic Games.
I stared at the building. Remembering it being mentioned at some point in the guild and I sighed. I could have been part of this. Now I might never be in a guild again. You don't need one. I thought to myself sternly. You can make it on your own.
The sky was already dark by the time I arrived at an inn. Honey Bone Inn.
I walked into it and asked for room. Quickly paying with some of my leftover rent money I walked up to my room and sat. I unpacked my things and asked Virgo to get my pyjamas I had packed.
I quickly took a hot shower as Virgo laid my pyjamas down and left. I got dressed and laid down on my bed. The clock next to my bed said it was only 7:15pm. I sighed and stuffed my face into my pillow. I wasn't even tired.
Getting up again I sat in front of the desk in the room, bored. Suddenly I realised I could write to my parents or work on my novel. But then reality hit me like a weight. I didn't have any news for my parents and the novel was a bust without anyone to read it. I groaned but lifted up my pen and stared at the blank paper. As if staring at it would suddenly make the words appear.
Staring, staring I began to sway. An old lullaby drifting in my head. "Sleep my darling." My mother's voice whispered in the back of my head and the last thing I remember was the blank paper and spots of ink.
"Hello." I looked up to see Acnologia again. We were in the guild surrounded by people. "Acnologia." Acnologia leaned against a chair and frowned. "So you wanted to train here?" He asked sarcastically. I frowned. "I did this?" Acnologia nodded. "Unconsciously of course. You can change it if you like, it's your dreamscape."
I nodded and closed my eyes but nowhere else came to mind. Acnologia laughed. "Don't hurt yourself, the guild can do." I sighed and sat down with a huff. "So, when do we start?" Acnologia stood up. "We start by relaxing." Acnologia put his foot up onto the wooden table.
I glared at him. "I thought you were suppose to train me." "I am." "Relaxing?" He shrugged. "Do you trust me?" I scoffed. "How do I say I have trust issues without hurting your feelings? No. I don't trust you at all." Acnologia grinned. "Then this should be easy." I groaned but sat down on one of the chairs. "Now, relax."
I closed my eyes and felt myself begin to drift away. A slight draft blew through the guild, making my hair fall into my face. Slowly I breathed in the cold air. In and out, in and out.
I reached into the silent darkness and began to pull. Imagining my power as a coil of wire tense and alert. "Lucy." A voice whispered in the middle of the darkness. "Hmm?" "Lucy!" The voice said harsher. I ignored it, concentrating on the power that felt like coiled wire inside of me. Waiting to come out.
"LUCY?!" The voice screamed. "What?!" I hissed, letting go of the control over the coiled wire for a minute. "Your wrecking the guild."
I opened my eyes, harsh light blinded me before I eventually adjusted. My eyes widened when I realised the chaos around me was coming from me.
I stood up wobbly staring at the empty carcass of the guild. Bits of cloth and wood stuck at the wooden frames, it looked like a tornado had hit the place.
"Acnologia?" I yelled through the smoke. Acnologia tapped me on the shoulder making me turn around. "Good job." He said grinning. I gasped horrified. "This... This is what your teaching me?!" I shrieked. He frowned. "It doesn't always hav-" "THIS IS DRAGON SLAYING MAGIC?!" I gasped horrified.
My memory of Natsu's majestic flames, Wendy's healing winds and Gajeel's tough iron pillars shattered and were replaced by the scene before me. This was the real monstrosity of Dragon Slaying Magic.
"Lucy, calm down." Acnologia said softly. "Dragon Slaying isn't like this. I could never hurt anyone." Acnologia chuckled bitterly. "Yet you wish to destroy your guild. This is the power it takes to stomp down pests like them. This is the power you need to destroy me. Don't you see, your power is incredible."
I backed away from him, pushing him off me. "Stop. Don't make me become you." "Become what? A sadistic monster who was damned as soon as he was born? An immortal begging for help from a little girl?! Is that what you see me as?!" He bellowed, eyes glowing angrily.
I tightened my fists around my side. "I. Am. Not. Evil." I whispered. I raised my fist high above my head and sent it flying towards him.
The world exploded into white light and suddenly Acnologia was on the other side of the room. Cuts and bruises up and down his body.
I approached him slowly, my fist above my head. When I was close enough, I aimed again. But before I could he stopped my fist with his right hand, which was pulsing with blue light. "And what is this?" He asked smirking, raising my fist up. He let go, so it hung in the air.
White light, stuck to my hand like flames and smoke. Power pulsed off it. Concentrated power that had one message etched into it. Stay away. I tensed and pulled my arm back. Acnologia still smirking, got up slowly. "You have amazing power, are you sure you want to give it up? You have nothing more to loose. Your friends abandoned you, your family is dead. Let me help you Lucy." He whispered almost tenderly.
I stared at the tattered flag with the Fairy Tail insignia on it, robbed off it's glory. He was right. He was painfully right. I did have nothing more to loose. The only thing I had was my promise. My promise to destroy Fairytail from the inside out.
"Ok." Acnologia looked surprised as I met his dark eyes. "You can help me. But the innocent cannot be pulled into my war. Promise me, promise I won't hurt anyone that's never done anything wrong." Acnologia met my gaze with his, intense, solemn. "I promise the power I teach you can only be controlled by you and by your choices. Now promise me you will kill me when the time comes."
I nodded. "I promise I will kill you when the time comes." Acnologia smiled held my hands in his. "Thank you." I glanced at my hands surprised. His hands felt cold. So cold.
Acnologia suddenly looked up his eyes laughing. Mocking. He laughed and lifted his hand to touch my face. I flinched but I couldn't move. I was cemented to the ground.
"Thank you for being the perfect tool Lucy." I gasped as a burning cold coursed through my veins. Washing away all the warm feelings for my ex-guild mates, my compassion. Most of all, my love for my spirits. Loki, Aquarius, Aries, everyone...
Acnologia continued to laugh. "I'll uncover your darkness! Awake oh mighty CHAOS DRAGON SLAYER!" He screamed into the grey skies above.
"Let the darkness envelope you in it's deadly clutched like it did me, Lucy Heartfilia."
I screamed a wordless plea to him. My eyes accusing and desperate.
I'm sorry mina.
He laughed and grabbed my chin roughly. "Listen to me my sweet Dragon Slayer, you are no longer Lucy Heartfilia. From now on, you are both the darkness and the light. From now on you are Eclipse. The Chaos Dragon Slayer. With my power, help me have revenge on Zeref! Kill him and become the next dark wizard!"
Normal pov,
It had been months since anyone had seen Lucy Heartfilia. Not the people of a Crocus, not Magnolia, not even her ex-guildmates. Some have already forgotten the cheerful Celestial Spirit, many moved on without her presence. After all, they've virtually only known her for a year.
It almost seemed that Fiore had forgotten the very existence, that was Lucy Heartfilia.
The Fairy Tail guild,
Makarov sat on the bar sipping at his beer, gazing at his children from afar as they matured and became adults and masters of themselves. He couldn't help but feel sad, that he never got to see one of them become the person he knew she would have been.
He was sad he could only imagine where she was now. Clover? Crocus? Another guild perhaps. He didn't know, he could only wish that fate had been kind to spare her, to give her what he couldn't.
A huge metallic clang bought him out of his thoughts and he glanced to the right of the guild where two of the guild's Dragon Slayers were going at it.
"Ouch, I think Fire Brains just tried to hit me, you still alive?!" "When I'm done with you Iron Butt you won't be!" Natsu fired punch after punch, pummelling Gajeel with attacks that to a normal Mage would have been fatal. But not for the Iron Dragon Slayer.
"Pshh, you call this attacking? Need a little lesson boy?!" He jeered as he blocked every punch. "Your the one that needs it!" Natsu bellowed irritated he couldn't even touch his rival. Sure he wasn't Gray but he was good fun to fight with anyway.
Natsu kept on attacking and Gajeel kept on blocking. For a long time it seemed like the fight would end with both Dragon Slayer exhausting themselves. Makarov rolled his eyes. Let Erza handle it. But before his thoughts were made into reality, a boom alerted everyone from what they were doing.
A beat up Evergreen, Bickslow and Freed fell to the ground bloody and bruised. Everyone ran to their fallen guild-mates. Erza was there first, holding Freed up. Yelling out orders. "Alert Porlyusica immediately." Makarov bellowed walking over to Bickslow who was trying to stand up.
"What happened, child?" Bickslow winced as he fell to the ground again. "Attack... Too strong... Mission... Incomplete..." He gasped. Makarov nodded. "Bring him to the infirmary, I have to contact the job's contacts." Makarov gulped. A S-class job that the Rajinshu couldn't handle was something new. It wasn't like them to come back with a failed job, they had too much pride for that... And where was Laxus?!
Makarov tensed as he grabbed the other copy of the job request that the Rajinshu just came back from and stared.
Capture of a Dark Wizard seeking Zeref; Name, Eclipse; Reported to look like the ex-member of Fairytail, Lucy Heartfilia; Specialises in an unknown magic; Threat level, High; Reason of capture, destruction of Tartarus and other guilds; Reward, 10,00,000 Jewels; Job request from, the Magic Council.
Makarov stared at it eyes wide, his arm shook as he re-read the job request. Laxus and the Rajinshu must have read Lucy's name and went out to find her.. For the council to ask for help, from other guilds. This is unheard of.
Makarov dropped the piece of paper on the ground falling onto the floor. "Gramps!" Natsu screamed getting there just in time, but not before he saw the job request. Lucy. He grabbed the paper and began to read.
Mira quickly helped Makarov to a nearby chair and went to grab some water. Erza looked at her Master curiously. "What's wrong Master?" Makarov shaking pointed towards the paper Natsu was reading over and over again.
Erza snatched the job request away and read it. "Dark Wizard seeking Zeref... Eclipse... Lucy...Unknown magic... Destruction of Tartarus... Magic council..." "Lucy?!" Gray asked and ran over to Erza grabbing the paper. Happy flew over and read the job request behind Erza and Gray.
"Lucy... She did keep her promise." Natsu whispered. "I can't believe she destroyed Tartarus." Gray muttered scratching his head. "And she learnt some new magic too." Erza uttered. Everyone glanced at each other confused. The person that had beaten the Rajinshu this badly was their Lucy?
"It can't be..." Makarov stuttered. He had done this... He had done to her by not stopping her. Now she has fallen into the darkness just like Hades. And that wasn't where it ended, she had also taken a hostage.
"What Gramps?" Natsu asked roughly noticing the 'but' caught in Makarov's sentence. "Lucy... Took Laxus."
A little rushed? I know I thought so too, but when I was writing it, it just kinda wrote itself. I hope it wasn't too rushed. Read and review!