Hi guys! Another short chapter unfortunately -.- But don't worry, tomorrow's chapter is longer, I think.. Anyway, this chapter has two titles because I couldn't settle on one XD Besides I think Hiro Mashima does this sometimes too, I'm not sure. Refer to it which ever title you like, I don't mind. Again, thank you guys SO MUCH for so much positive support, it means a lot more then you might think XD A lot of evil Lucy in this one :I Hope you enjoy!

Chapter 4 (The Darkness Within/Loki vs Lucy)

Lucy's pov,

I stood in front of another destroyed guild. I sniffed as the stragglers try to run from my gaze. Idiots.

I gazed at them bored. Maybe this time I'll let them to run, so they can tell the others of what they saw. Haha it'll definitely make my job easier.

One of them saw me and got ready to fire a spell. "WATER NOVA!" The girl screamed, her voice hoarse from the screaming she had been doing as I trashed and killed everyone in her guild. It wasn't much fun really, it just wasn't as exciting after fighting Tartarus.

I sighed bored and waved my hand which sent a wave of dark light and turned the water to dust. "W-what did you do?" I sighed. "I destroyed your spell, your magic is your life right? I killed it. Now you should probably die as well." I said tonelessly.

I began to walk towards her my right arm out, my tattoo swirling with dark power. "No, no please.. I can help you, I can help you find Zeref." I couldn't help but grin. She was nothing but a puppet. Someone to get me closer to his goal, to my goal.

"My master would like for me to kill you, Water Mage." Her shoulders shook as she sobbed in front me. Crying? Urgh, disgusting. "Come Water Mage. Stand up and meet your death with dignity." She stood up shakily, her arms held out as her final attempt for her life.

They all did this. Pledged their allegiance then tried to kill you. It's gotten boring recently, the betrayal.

The girl began to suck up the water beneath her. A water barrier encircled her and I couldn't help but laugh. "Now that's a good girl." I laughed and grabbed my key. "Open Gate of the Water Bearer, AQUARIUS!" I announced thrusting her key into the water barrier smoothly. Aquarius appeared in front of me. She was silent as she fired an attack at the girl.

I couldn't help but feel a little irritated. Aquarius should have made the girl suffer more. Aquarius' water attack had completely annihilated the girl's attack and sent her flying.

I walked to the girl and stood in front of her. Her body was in an impossible angle as she laid there on the ground. Her eyes glassy, she was out cold. I crouched over her listening for her heart beat. There was none.

I swore under my breath. Great, I killed her. Acnologia isn't going to be happy, he liked it better when there was one left alive to suffer. I scowled. This was Aquarius' fault. I stood up and kicked the corpse away. "Aquarius!" Aquarius looked at me through hooded lids and came forward. "I told you to hurt her, not kill her you idiot."

Aquarius stayed silent not really meeting my gaze. "How dare you defy me?! You useless piece of crap, answer me!" I screamed. Aquarius opened her lips to speak but shut it again. I growled. "Answer. Me." "No." Aquarius whispered. "You'll regret this." I hissed and slapped her.

My hand landed on her cheek and it left a red mark. Aquarius didn't even flinch. Suddenly, the sound of a gate opening behind me alerted me and a rough hand grabbed me by the shoulder.

"Lucy!" A voice growled. I looked up to see another spirit I had contract with. Leo. I narrowed my eyes at him. "What are you doing here?" I snapped. Loki didn't look at me and told Aquarius to go.

Aquarius nodded and we were alone standing in front of yet another guild I had destroyed on a whim.

"Lucy, you are getting more and more unreasonable. I mean destroying an entire guild because they were worshipping Zeref?!" I scowled. "Don't call me that. That girl isn't who I am." "Yeah? Well the person I had a contract with was, and will always be Lucy. Who do you think you are Eclipse?" Loki asked with narrowed eyes.

"I think, Loki that the girl I was before is dead. She died a long time ago and if you think she's gonna come back and be all compassionate and love everything again then your wrong." "Lucy would NEVER hurt her spirits. I don't know what happened Lucy." Loki finished to a barely audible whisper.

I could feel myself getting angrier and angrier, my power balling itself in my fist. I knew I couldn't control it. I knew if the power were to get out of control I would destroy anyone or anything within ten feet of me.

We were silent for a moment. I broke the silence first. My voice tense, my sentences strung together carefully. "Loki-" "NO, Lucy. Don't 'Loki' me. Something's wrong. This isn't you and you know it. Lucy would NEVER kill people. She believed that life had meaning and only the person who owned that life had control over when to end it." Loki yelled with tears in his eyes.

My eyes widened as his words broke through my walls that had protected me all this time, through the pain. I scrambled to rebuild it. No, no, no. I don't want the pain. Please. I don't want it.

Loki must have noticed my panic because he swept me into a hug. He tucked his chin above my head. "Oh, Lucy." He whispered, usually I would have tensed and told him to let me go. But I didn't notice this time. The pain, the pain was coming.

"No, no, no I don't want the pain." I sobbed.

He did this. He wanted you to suffer. Kill him, kill him just like all the others. They want you to suffer. You can do it. You can kill him.

"Lucy?" Loki questioned as I quietened. My breathing was slower now, the pain was still there. But I knew how to take it away now. Take it away. I have to kill the one that reminded me off it. He wanted me to suffer?! Never.

He must die.

I pushed Loki off me roughly and stepped back.

Let go.

I breathed in and out. Feeling the power flow through me.

He wanted you to suffer.

"Leo you have forsaken me. You will die before you make me feel the pain again!" I roared. "DRAGON SLAYER SECRET ART, CHAOS DRAGON SOUL EXTINCTION!"

The sky darkened and the lightning touched down to the earth around me. Dark Energy flowed and crackled through the air. I pointed both my arms at Loki and a blast of Dark Energy hit Loki square in the chest.

"CHAOS DRAGON SECOND ELEMENT, POISONOUS CHAOTIC DRAGON ROAR!" I screamed. Loki stood up wobbly, grinning. "REGULUS, SHINING STAR!" Loki announced. I stared wide eyed. Since when could he do that?

"Impossible." I gasped. I stared at my attack as it was overpowered by Loki's attack. His attack hit me hard, it sent me lying on my back wide eyed. Loki walked up to me panting.

Everything hurt.

"Don't underestimate me Lucy... I'm sorry Lucy I didn't want to hurt you." Loki frowned. His eyes were shinier than usual, was he crying?

Think about what your putting him through Lucy.

I'm not Lucy.

You don't want him to go through what happened to him seven years ago. You don't.

I do.

Do you?

I do.

I opened my eyes and got up slowly. Dark Energy was still encircling me. That's good, that's good. I can still defeat him.

Remember.

Never.

Remember who he is to you.

NO.

Your friend.

That I swore to protect. Will now die in my hands.

Irony is a beautiful thing.

I raised my right hand up into the air absorbing the Darkness around me. I swallowed and breathed in. Grinning I stepped towards my celestial spirit.

"Let's make this interesting. Open Gate of the Ram, ARIES!" I bellowed.

And now, the finale.

"Arms, DARK ENERGY!" I pointed the Dark Energy I had absorbed towards Aries. "ARIES!" Loki shrieked running towards her but it was too late.

Aries stood in front of Loki, my Dark Energy swirling around her.

I smiled grimly. "I told you this would be interesting."

Normal pov,

"So why are we the ones going on this mission?" The purple haired Mage questioned to her partner as they walked through the forest in search of the dark guild, Succubus Eye.

"You know how Natsu gets when someone gets kidnapped. We don't have enough money for any collateral damage. And if it really is Lucy... Well, I don't know how he would react." Guildarts replied looking up at the sky.

"Patrolling a dark guild.. What have we got into?"

"Juvia and Gray are doing it too." Gildarts muttered.

"This person is pretty powerful to be able to cut the amount of dark guilds so quickly, there's only two left active as far as we know. Why do you think she's doing this for?" Gildarts shrugged.

Laki pouted. "Still, if the Rajinshu couldn't beat her, then why me and you?" Guildarts grinned. "I'll protect ya'." Laki rolled her eyes. "Right. And what did Cana say about all this." Gildarts suddenly blushed and rubbed the back of his neck. "Eh heh, I... Kinda forgot to tell her."

Laki smirked. "Talk about bad parenting." "Hey, your not a parent, how would you know?!" Guildarts demanded. Laki laughed. "I have better parenting skills than you will ever have." Guildarts scowled. "You wanna be-"

Gildarts was cut off as a beam of Dark Energy cut past him, eventually hitting a tree. "Crap." "I think we may have been a little late."

Gildarts nodded. "Let's go. I don't think we missed anything yet."

They quickly ran towards the place where the laser had come from and ran straight into a battle and behind it the wrecked guild hall of Succubus Eye.

They both couldn't hold their gasps though, not because they were too late to protect the guild and capture the culprit. But because the battle they had ran into was between a very familiar celestial spirit and his Mage.

I might just post another chapter to compensate for this chapter XD I don't know why but it seems so short to me. Read and review.