Hi guys, sorry for the later update (You thought I wasn't going to update did you? ;) Yee of little faith) Anyways, yeah I spent the entire day writing this cause I didn't want to not have something to update (I mean I have 80 people to answer to if I don't so... ) So yeah, here's chapter 13. So Reject me, Reject the World comes in three parts, it's not necessarily one after another (So their not a different story or anything) Their just generally chapters that have more Zeref in it.

Anyways, thank you guys so much for the support, I hope you enjoy!

Chapter 13 (Reject me, Reject the World: Part 1)

16th of April, X791 Tartarus Incident,

Lucy's pov,

I stared at the hundreds of capsules deep inside the headquarters of Tartarus. Somewhere far away someone was yelling orders, about how the self-moving cube was heading into self destruct mode. I ignored it, it wasn't because I didn't think it was the truth. I just didn't care.

The capsules were all empty at the moment, all filled with a type of green liquid I couldn't recognise. On the capsules themselves were vein-like vines, wrapped around the contraption like a tree root. I couldn't help but feel repulsed at the sight of them, they weren't just some kind of technology Zeref's demons thought up. They were alive.

I forced my feet forward to get closer to the capsules even though my entire body was screaming that this was wrong, that whatever that was in front of me didn't belong in nature and should not exist at all. But I made it anyway, and when I arrived I realised one of them weren't empty after all. There was someone in there, or something.

A woman who looked about 24 was floating in one of the capsules, completely submerged in the water, her naked body entangled in what looked like an octopus' tentacles, complete with spiky suckers puncturing her in my mind I was busy wondering how she could possibly breath in there but that wasn't what caught my attention. Her hair which was bright red, floated around the back of her head like some fiery halo.

My body stiffened at the familiar sight. That scarlet hair... I only knew one person with hair like this. I placed my right palm gently on the glass keeping the liquid in the capsule. Suddenly, as soon as I made contact with the capsule, the woman opened her eyes. I screamed and jumped back.

We stayed like that for a few minutes, my eyes staring at her, her eyes staring at me. A thousand thoughts were running through my head, but there was one that was the loudest and every cell in my body was telling me to do it.

Save her, save Erza.

But as I scanned over her face, I slowly realised this wasn't Erza. Or if it was, it wasn't now. The woman's eyes which must have been some bright colour filled with warmth had no irises, or maybe there was and there were just no whites.

Either way, her eyes were pitch black, there was no depth, no other colours like grey or brown. It was all black, plain flat black, that lacked any shine that an ordinary human eye would have had. Surrounding her eyes were deep purple veins, thousands of them. They ran up and down her body, until there was so little untainted skin left that you could barely see what her skin looked like before.

The woman who was now awake suddenly moved her arms and punched the glass in one swift movement, making the glass crack. I flinched and backed away from her. Before I could do anything more, she punched the glass again, breaking through the glass and sending the green liquid spilling out onto the ground.

I held back a scream as she broke out of the capsule. First her hands broke through, then her arms, her legs and then her body. The suckers as soon as they left her body dried up and retracted into the vines covering the capsule. She didn't speak, she didn't seem to remember how to. All she did was stand there as soon as she walked out of the capsule.

I stood there, my breath caught in my throat as I scanned her body. There was more veins covering her body then I had first thought. Suddenly her un-seeing eyes turned towards me sharply and I let a out a little yelp.

She gazed at me for a few minutes as if scanning for my weak spots and lunged at me. Her body hit me on the full and sent me flying backwards into another capsule. I plunged into the green liquid, the green liquid swallowed up my vision which made me panic and gasp for unnecessary air, making me choke and gag on the butter tasting liquid. I clawed desperately at the water, hoping I could latch onto anything to escape my jade prison. Anything.

Suddenly my clawing fingers latched onto the side of the capsule, despite the broken glass lining it I grabbed on. With my last bit of energy I pulled myself out of the capsule and into fresh air.

The woman was waiting for me, her gaze was centred entirely on me as I got out shakily of the broken capsule. I was silent, ignoring her stoic stare and focused on my breathing which was faster than I thought. Suddenly a burning pain hit my numb arms and I glanced down at it. My breathing got even faster as I saw bright red liquid oozing down my wrist.

My heart was practically beating in my ears now, as I tried to push the thought of blood to the back of my head. I had to stay standing, I had to beat this woman.

I bought both my bleeding arms in front of me in a fighting pose and straightened up. "I don't care who you are, or who you look like. I'm taking you down!" I yelled. My voice, even to myself sounded hoarse. Like the words were clawing themselves out of my throat. The woman didn't respond just rushed forward towards me.

My determination evaporated as I saw exactly how fast she was hurtling towards me. No Lucy you can do this. You can't back down now. But before I could find it in me to attack, she stopped. Her body a few inches in front of me. She was so close. So close. My newly enhanced smelling picked up every scent around her. She smelt of disinfectant and another smell...

Flowers.

Suddenly, her stilled body crumbled to the ground. A large hole on her back, which looked just deep enough to pierce through the heart, nothing more. Blood was gushing out of the hole and it wasn't human blood. It was some kind of black tar like liquid. But I didn't care, there was someone dead in front of me. It didn't matter who this person was, or what she was, she was gone, dead.

I looked up, tears making my vision shaky, only to see Mard Geer's smirking face. "Well, well. It seems like the Dragon Slayer has found her before me. It doesn't matter, let's have toss around before this place blows into millions of little pieces. Shall we?"

Present day,

I stared at Yukino, my heart beating wildly in my chest. This couldn't be possible. I destroyed their base, I destroyed everything within a five mile radius of the Tartarus.

Wasn't the capsules the only thing that can do this?

This is Zeref we're talking about, of course not.

But I destroyed the library of Zeref's book, no one can reference them anymore.

Except the man who wrote them himself.

A cold sweat ran down my spine. No, no. This couldn't actually be Zeref's personal work. Could it?

While I distracted by the idea of Zeref being an active threat, Yukino rushed towards me. Slamming her body against mine mindlessly. I couldn't push her off. Even now, I hadn't even come close to replacing enough magic or energy to push her off.

Yukino was hitting me now in every way imaginable, it must have only been seconds but my entire body was starting to feel numb. Suddenly a thought came scrambling into my head.

Dragon Soul.

NO!

I resisted against Yukino as she kicked me again sending me crumbling onto the dirt ground. No, no, no. I can't unleash that thing. Minerva could have been killed, we could have both died if luck didn't save us that day. Who knows what might happen this time.

Suddenly Yukino's hand started to glow with a deep purple energy that felt similar to my own magic. My heart skipped a beat as I realised what she was going to do now.

Finish me off.

I clenched my teeth, trying my best to get up. I had to fight her, I had to do something. Anything.

You know what's going to happen if you unleash Dragon Soul right? Yukino may be possessed now but if she dies, she dies permanently.

But if you don't use it, you'll die. And no one else would see Zeref coming. Your the only who knows.

Are you willing to spill her blood to save the world as you know it?

I scowled at my own racing thoughts and it wasn't helping that I could see it. See exactly how easy it was to cast the spell. How much it would do. What it could do. It was tempting, I could save everything, myself and everyone in it.

Except Yukino Aguria.

She's only one person, it's selfish against the fate of the world.

But she's my friend, she might as well be my whole world.

It's not like you need friends, you've been fine without them for months. Does it really matter, one person's life?

I didn't get to find the answer.

The magic that I must have used for Dragon Soul welled up in me, covering inch of my thoughts, everything disappeared and my sense of coherency left. All I could feel now was an intense need, to dispel all of the energy that felt like wall blocking me from my own mind.

And everything that I ever knew told me one thing.

I needed to use Dragon Soul.

I couldn't control it now anyway. I had already lost control over myself, the worst part was that I could still see it.

And I would enjoy it.

Cause this was who I was, this was who I really was.

I was the Chaos Bringer, I was the Chaos Dragon Slayer.

Normal pov,

Dark Energy pulsed around Lucy's body, cracking the dirt underneath her feet, letting the same purple light that was around her to shoot out of the ground like bizarre spot lights. Somewhere far away, lightning was crackling through the sky, like sparks of flame throwers.

Her hair flowed behind her head, like it was being lifted by an invisible wind. Her eyes that were originally chocolate brown, were glowing a blinding silver. She wasn't Lucy Heartfilia now, Yukino's possessor made sure of that. She was Eclipse, a mixture of light and dark conflicted in an infinite war for total power.

For total control.

Yukino's glowing fist almost seemed like a toy next to Lucy's glowing figure now. For half a minute, Yukino's fear showed through her blank features. She had broke through from her possession just long enough to see her impending death.

Lucy then ripped off her right sleeve of her shirt revealing the Chaos Dragon Slayer's mark that ran from her arm to her collarbone. The mark pulsed with the same silver light that was radiating from her eyes, making a collage of purple and silver.

Suddenly, Lucy threw her right arm into the air, her palm stretched out wide as if absorbing the darkness around her. Her mouth opening wide to say two words.

The two words that nearly ended her life, Minerva's and now Yukino's.

"DRAGON SOUL!"

The energy around her gathered in the air above her glowing figure, the silver and purple light merged together to become a recognisable shadow.

The dragon of chaos, Acnologia.

Yukino's mouth was wide open now, her possessor had fled after realising how grave the situation was. Yukino's screams seemed to get stuck in her throat as the dragon before her roared. Shaking the ground underneath her feet.

She couldn't do anything now, it was over. The first minute the light erupted from the ground underneath Lucy Heartfilia, had already spelled out both their deaths. All she could do was to maintain her stature and cover her face with her two suddenly small-looking hands and hope for the best.

After all, both girls knew from minute one that it was too late, it was all too late.

Back in the forest,

Sting didn't know why but he couldn't help but feel the need to run. He kept looking back at Rogue who was just trailing behind him and opening his mouth as if to say something, but always thought the better of it.

The air around him felt tense to him somehow, like it was weighed down by pounds and pounds of lead. But the scent reminded him more of an unknown black sludge, then the shiny metal found in pencils.

He turned around once again, his mouth wide opened. The sentence he was about to say on the tip of his tongue. Rogue turned around so he was facing Sting, his face expectant. But Sting seeing that he had Rogue's full attention, turned around again, his mouth closed promptly after.

Rogue sighed but didn't say anything as he crossed both his arms over his chest. Suddenly Sting spoke up again, "How did you leave things back at the camp?" Sting asked quickly, while secretly hoping that Rogue didn't hear at all, it wasn't that he didn't care, he just didn't feel like being teased about his 'mating problem' again.

Unfortunately, Rogue heard every word. "Are you actually worried that Rufus is going to steal Lucy away from you? Or are you just paranoid?" Sting growled at Rogue's sarcastic tone. "I'm serious Rogue, there's something wrong in this forest." Rogue raised an eyebrow Sting, while shaking his head. "I left it the way you left it, only Rufus has probably left by now." Sting's eyes widened slightly. "Did he say where he wash going?" Rogue shrugged. "No idea." Sting narrowed his eyes at his friend.

The sense of worry still pushing at the back of his skull. "Look, I think we should-" Sting was cut off sharply by a bloodcurdling scream and a very familiar voice yelling a spell they didn't know.

A blast of purple and silver light bursted through the tree tops of the forest, sending lightning crashing down into the dry earth below. Rogue stared wide-eyed at Sting, his emotionless expression completely wiped off by what had just happened.

Sting didn't return the look, only nodded and started running at the direction of the clearing. His footsteps sending little clouds of dust around him. Rogue ran after him, quickly catching up to the White Dragon Slayer. Lightning danced around in spidery lines all around them, charring nearby trees and other shrubbery.

But despite the situation, the two Dragon Slayers moved quickly and it wasn't long before they both crashed loudly, into the battlefield. But what they saw made them wish they hadn't come at all.

"LUCY!" Sting screamed, her name coming out of his mouth before he even thought about it. The blond girl turned around swiftly to see who had called her name, but she wasn't Lucy, not anymore. Her eyes were a blinding silver, her usually semi-short hair flowed around wildly behind her head, her bangs covering most of her face.

Her stance was something unfamiliar too, she was standing with her legs firmly planted to the ground, both her arms in the air, a silver mark that stretched across her right arm to her collarbone glowed as bright as full moon. But what was most shocking of all, was the other Celestial Mage in front of her.

Her usually smiling face was now covered in deep purple veins that ran down to her side, her short white hair stuck to the side of her face and forehead, her dress was half way destroyed and she had her eyes closed, her hand stretched in front of her face in a surrender.

Rogue had to force himself to stay back as soon as he saw Yukino standing there, his entire body was screaming at him to to shield Yukino from the swirling mass of immense magical power before her. But he knew even if he did just that, it would be no use. It would have gone straight through him anyway, and into her. He was suppose to save her, not die with her.

Sting on the other hand wasn't even thinking. Rogue who was already having a hard time stopping himself rushing into the battle, couldn't summon the energy to stop Sting and could only stand their watching helplessly as his friend threw himself to, what he knew was going to be the White Dragon Slayer's death.

Lucy's pov,

I was blind in the darkness. It was one of those time where you know you can see and you know your eyes are open but what I saw was exactly what it was, darkness that resembled the night sky when the clock strikes midnight.

I was cold too, my hands were rubbing themselves against my arm to make myself warm but the cold wasn't just any normal cold. It was a cold that creeped up my spine and extended through out my veins.

Not only freezing my bones but my blood.

It was then when I realised I was also alone. My heart began to speed up until I could hear it in my ears, alarmed by the fact that I was alone. That maybe I could never escape this place. What was this place, anyway? I looked around again, expecting to only see the same flat black walls that surrounded me but someone else was there too. Waiting.

Acnologia?

"Alexian." I whispered, my hands extended outward, it was then when I realised we were both glowing in the darkness like LED lights. He stared at me, his eyes and hair the same black that surrounded us, with the occasional electric blue highlight. He didn't answer.

"Acnologia?" I called again, louder this time. He didn't answer me either, he just kept staring as if I hadn't spoken at all. I glared at him. What was wrong with him? Why won't he answer me?

Suddenly it all hit me, he wasn't answering me because... Because he shouldn't be here at all. He was dead. I stared at him, my mouth opened wide in shock. The temperature dropped even lower as I tried to back away slowly away from him.

What is happening?! What is this place? Why is Alexian here?

I was so caught up with my racing thoughts that I didn't even notice Acnologia's iron grip on my wrist. It wasn't until it started to hurt when I torn out of my thoughts and dragged back into the pitch black room again.

I had to hold back a scream as I scanned Acnologia's face. He was staring intently at me, his gaze burning into my forehead, his mouth opening closing as if he was whispering. It wasn't until seconds later when my ears suddenly tuned into what he was saying.

"It's already beginning, he is no longer tolerant to human race's mistakes. He's already taken the first steps that will change the world. You have to stop him, stop him now. Because if you don't... You and everyone else on this useless planet will be destroyed. " His voice rang in my ears even though he had stopped talking. I wasn't sure if I believed him either, or rather I didn't want to believe him.

Suddenly he spoke again, his voice trembling as if he was scared himself. I stared at Alexian's shaking figure. The Chaos Dragon... Was scared?

"Watashi o kyohi shi, sekai o kyozetsu."

Reject me, reject the world

My heart picked up it's pace again as soon as I heard it. That sentence.

I suddenly realised why Acnologia was so scared now and I wouldn't blame him.

Cause he was talking about the return of someone that had destroyed the world once.

Suddenly Acnologia let go of my wrist, leaving it landing back onto my side. I looked up at him surprised. "Alexian?" He just shook his head as he straightened up. "I told you not to use Dragon Soul idiot. Are you trying to kill yourself?" He muttered as he wiped his hands on his jeans.

I didn't answer. He grinned softly at me as if to cheer me up. "Why are you here? Aren't you dead?" I asked quietly, the words each getting caught in my throat. He hesitated before speaking again, "I am dead, kind of. When Zeref turned me into Acnologia, he had also unconsciously activated a biological link between us. As long as he's alive, I'm not completely dead."

My breath was caught in my throat as I heard this. He was alive the whole time?! Even though what I was feeling right now clearly wasn't calm, I tried to pretend I was anyway. "I'd assume you don't need me poking at the issue, so where are we?"

He smirked at my tone. "I see you haven't dropped that attitude. Heh." I didn't answer, prompting him to answer my question. He sighed before speaking, "This is the place your consciousness goes to when you use Dragon Soul, considering how long we've been talking, I assume your target is already dead." A chill ran down my back as he said it. Target. Yukino.

He raised and eyebrow at me as if he heard my thoughts. "But if she isn't, I'd advise you to leave." I didn't bother asking how he even know my 'target' was a girl but narrowed my eyes. "How? I don't know about you but I've done this spell twice and I haven't been able to break out of it either time."

"Yes but the first time you passed out, this is the second time, your in what I like to call the second stage. It's a little harder to break out of than the first one, but it's not too late. You can do it. Besides there's someone waiting for you on the other side."

I stared at him confused but he only smiled. "I missed your clueless-ness." I chuckled. "And I've missed your secrets, but what you told me... Is it... Is it true?" His smile dropped replaced by a grim look. "I wish it wasn't, unfortunately I don't know when he is at the moment or what he's planning, but his demon was the one that possessed your friend."

"I thought I killed them all." Acnologia grinned, not in a good way. "The man's the legendary Dark Mage, he can make new ones." I bit my lip. "I guess your right." He didn't answer. "You have to leave. Right now. The second stage is almost over. If you don't leave now, you'll end up killing her and everything in Magnolia."

"How did you..." He smirked. "I have my own ways. Now, go. Go." I shook my head at him. "I'll see you later?" He shrugged. "Maybe, hopefully not. Well not until your facing him." He said tucking a stray hair on my forehead behind my ear, before leaning close to my ear. "Wake up Lucy, wake up."

Normal pov,

The wind around Lucy had suddenly died down, the purple and silver lights disappeared and Lucy's eyes returned back to the way they were. All three mages froze as soon as they saw this, not sure what to think.

Suddenly Lucy was falling, her legs gave out from under her and her body fell to the ground with a thud before Sting who was closest to her, could catch her. It was a few minutes later when Yukino finally let her hands fall to her side and Rogue had relaxed, convinced that Lucy wasn't a threat anymore.

Sting was the closest to Lucy, he was crouched in front of body, who he had dragged onto his lap. He was uncomfortable now even though the situation clearly didn't call for it, but this was the closest he's ever been to the blonde girl and part of him didn't want her to wake up.

Even if it was evil to hope so.

It wasn't after an hour later when Lucy came back to consciousness, gasping desperately for air as if she hadn't had been holding her breath for hours. It was around that time when Rufus, unknown to what happened had to be briefed over the afternoon's events.

Something about Lucy's Dragon Slaying powers going crazy or, that's what Lucy had said anyway. She wanted to keep Yukino being possessed and her encounter of Acnologia a secret, she knew her business with Zeref and Acnologia were hers and only hers. There was no need to bring these four into it.

But this was bigger than her wasn't it? It wasn't just about her and the people around her, it was about everyone in Fiore, it was their lives too.

But as she gazed at the laughing mages around her as they ate their dinner, forgetting everything that had happened that afternoon, she promised that she was going to save them, even if it was going to kill her.

She'd never imagine exactly how literal that promise really was.

So yeah, I'm sure you probably already noticed that I didn't use a lot of editing in this one. Its probably cause I'm already late, and the editing is being rushed (The last few paragraphs were rushed =.= ) But anyways, I hope you guys all enjoyed. Read and review!