I'm back with chapter 38 of my amazing story. Please R&R and I shall see you at the bottom of the page.
POV: Lucy, Natsu, Lucy
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail
My eyes widen and I'm completely frozen to my Spot as I watch Kageyama stand up straight with a satisfied smile adorning his face. I'm ice-cold with any and all warmth I had felt just vanishes into the cool dreadful night. My heart is hammering insistently pounding loudly in my ears leaving me almost deaf to any other noise within the small room. My mouth is dry leaving my throat feel as if it were full of sandpaper and when I look down at my hands I can see that they are shaking so hard to the point where I'm sure that they'll just snap off.
"Don't be afraid Lucy," Kageyama whispers as he moves away from me while stuffing his hands into his pockets as he continues to watch me intently.
He's a liar.
"You're not alone."
He's lying.
"There's nothing for you to fear."
HE'S A GODDAMN LIAR!
"All we want is for you to join us..."
"LIAR!" I screech while clutching tightly onto my head feeling as If it might explode, "LIAR! LIAR! LIAR! THEY'RE ALL LIES!" I cry while sobbing my eyes out right in front of these terrifying strangers. A hand lightly grabs my bare shoulder and it feels like a branding iron that I push away with all the strength I can possibly conjure and the force causes Kageyama to fall to the floor, "I'LL NEVER JOIN YOU, YOU HEAR?! NEVER!"
I'm gasping for air with fresh hot tears streaking down my cheeks as I glared down at the dark haired boy who I had once seen as a friend but was now far worse than the monsters that scared me who I knew still lingered in the shadows. His expression is that of disbelief as his dark onyx eyes stare at me before looking up at the silver haired man who has watched the scene with utter fascination. The man's dark black eyes stay trained on me as I watch him not liking one bit the dark look he's giving me. His aura is so pungently dark that it has me recoiling causing me to step as far away from him as possible. My back, unfortunately, hits my captor who then graps onto my arms in a vice-like grip that has me wincing from the pain, but through the pain I continue to glare at the man who's long menacing scythe gleams in the dim moonlight behind him as if ready to cut me down.
"So now what Erigor," a short, fat, green haired man asks after he emerges from the liquidy shadows.
Erigor sighs sounding disappointed, but the intimidating smile stretching on his lips begs to differ as a low deep chuckle resounds from the quiet man, "I guess there's no other choice," He says as he brings his scrythe before him causing his cloak to billow around him, "We'll just have to take the little princess by force."
More laughter rumbles through the dark room and I can feel my heart sinking lower and lower in my chest, my hope slowly slipping from my restrained fingers and the name princess could not have sounded so disgusting to me before. I look down at Kageyama desperately praying that he has something left of a heart and will help me out of this horrible mess, but he simply drapes his arm over his knee and looks up at me with a casual smile, "Sorry Lucy," he apologizes and I can clearly taste bile in my mouth, "I'd suggest you come with us willingly, if not who knows what Erigor will do to you," He then stands off the ground and stands before me while grabbing my chin with a gentle hand, "It's best if you just listen like a good little girl," and this angers me beyond reasoning that before I know it I jerk my chin and chomp down onto his hand breaking his hand easily with my teeth, "SHIT!" Kageyama yells as he slaps me to make me release his hand, which I do so with a yelp feeling my cheek sting terribly.
Stars swim across my vision and the room tilts and bobs as I dizzily watch more of Erigor's henchmen emerge from the shadows, each holding a dreadful look of their own leaving me wondering how I was going to get out of this one?
Not knowing what else to do I do the one thing I can only do.
I scream.
"Did you find anything?" Juvia's voice comes from the walky-talky that's strapped tightly to my pants as I rush down the street away from the Academy where I just came from. I run down the street back towards where the party is being held where Juvia should be searching at along with Gray and Gajeel and I groan not believing at all that we haven't been able to find Lucy yet.
"NO!" I growl into the small device not bothering to stop and catch my breath as I continue to race down the cobblestoned street, "What about Gray and Gajeel," I ask her, "Have they found anything?"
"Not yet," Juvia says with a heavy sigh.
DAMMIT! Where the hell can she be?!
When I reach the corner of the street I do a quick three-sixty to see if I missed anything when I first ran through here when I notice something pink sparkle just beyond the open gates of Kardia Cathedra, "I found something," Gray yells from within the gates and as I run towards him I see him picking up the pink object to reveal that it's a shoe. Better yet it's Lucy's right shoe.
When I reach the raven haired teen I notice Juvia reaching us at the same time. I take the pink shoe from Gray and look at it to see that it thankfully doesn't have any blood on it. I then look up searching the courtyard of the church wondering where the blonde could have run off with only one shoe on. It isn't until I hear the familiar scream that I look up at the looming church to find my answer.
I push past a pair of thick heavy intricately carved wooden doors and race down the long hall past large portraits and lit candles that cast shadows on the gray stoned walls. My bare feet slap loudly on the ice cold marble floor and my tattered dress only weighs me down making me tired far faster than I should be. I feel disoriented and dizzy feeling once in a while as if the floor is racing towards my face, but I somehow miraculously stay upright and running at a steady pace without falling or crashing into something.
Back in the cold dark room I had fought tooth and nail against any opponent that came my way as I scratched, clawed, kicked, and head butted my way free from the monsters who were trying to take me away. My arms were probably coated with fresh new bruises and scratches, my hair was probably in a crazy mess, and my favorite dress was now torn into unrecognizable shreds. The only positive thing was that I was free, but the bad thing is that they're still after me.
"She ran this way," I hear a heavy voice bellow behind me causing me to screech and quicken my speed as I race towards a lone door ahead of me that opens up to reveal a stairwell that leads up.
Taking my chances, I rush into the small room before closing the door behind me tightly and then running up the stone steps with my tattered skirts clutched tightly in my shaking hands. I trip a couple of times running up the stairs and every time my knees hit the edge of the stone steps and I'm pretty sure that by now I'm spilling blood. Not daring to stop and check on my injuries, I continue to race up the stairs until I reach a door that I push open and I hear the rusted hinges screech out while my muscles do the same. Once I'm out on the church's roof I immediately turn and close the heavy door behind me wondering what I was going to do now? I mean, I could always try to find another exit but who knew if they had split up below and were each racing up another flight of stairs to get to me. Any way I looked at it I was completely cornered in a place that should be a sanctuary.
"Dammit," I groan wanting nothing more than to collapse and give my overexurted body some much needed rest, but I can't rest now. Especially since I need to make a plan to escape these psychopaths that were clearly still after me.
Looking around the empty rooftop not knowing what to do I suddenly hear a low laugh behind me that has me whirling around to see my captors all lined up with Kageyama and Erigor in the middle of the line. How the hell did they get up here so fast and how come I didn't hear when they opened the door?
"Leave me alone," I yell as I back away from them as they slowly inch towards me, "You're a liar and there's no way in hell that I would ever go anywhere with you."
"Please Lucy," Kageyama reasons as he holds out his hand towards me, but I move farther back away from him no longer trusting his 'kind' facade, "At least come so we can talk. We can give you answers that everyone has been keeping from you. We can give you what you truly desire."
"We both know that chatting is already out the window," I say while intensifying my glare, "And what could you possibly know that will have me trusting you, let alone believing you?"
Kageyama smiles and turns to Erigor who shoots me an equally cruel smile that sends horrendous chills down my already cold spine, "We can tell you how your mother actally died..."
Rage that I've never in all my life have felt before rolls through me in burning waves at his words. If I could I would spit out fire and burn these demons to a crisp. How dare he mention my mother of all the people in this world? Wasn't it enough for him to scare me to death that he had to go and infuriate me by mentioning the most precious person to me. She who I loved far more than anything in the world. She who gave me my life and loved me every waking morning until the last of her days. She who I lost as a young child to a disease I did not understand in this very building that we were standing on. What a complete and utter asshole!
"My mother died of pneumonia," I spit out at the silver haired man feeling every inch of my body burn far hotter than an open flame as I ball my hands to my sides feeling my nails dig deep into my palms.
Erigor laughs and shakes his head as if I were a naive child who knew or understood a thing, "That is one of the many lies that you have been told by those who supposedly love you," he says as he leans lazily onto his scythe, "The truth, my dear princess, is that your dearly beloved mother was killed. Would you like to know by who?"
"Shut up, I don't want to hear anymore of your pathetic lies," I cry while covering my ears with shaking hands as I step farther back away from them, "Why can't you just shut up and leave me alone? I just want to be left alone!"
"Sorry princess, but you don't get that luxury."
I glare at Erigor wishing that I could actually throw burning daggers at him along with the rest of his group, but instead I continue to inch farther away from them as they continue to press towards me looking just about ready to dive in and hold me down. I don't think I have the energy or strength to fight them off again and I would go off running, but I'm once again completely cornered with my only escape forty feet below me. The thought of jumping doesn't seem all that bad, but I'm not willing to die...
Before I can think of any other way to escape, something large and black crashes onto the roof in front of me immediately blocking out both Erigor and Kageyama from my view. A crater forms under the large object and the force of the blow has me stepping back one more step. I then step on the back of my dress which causes me to trip and fall down over the edge of the fenceless roof. I instantly feel my body fall backwards and out of all the things I could think up of at this moment my thoughts travel back to the day I had first met Kageyama. When I had fallen that time I can clearly remember thinking of how I was going to one day trip and fall off a roof to my impending death.
How ironic that that is what is happening right this second.
Levy's story also comes into mind, but I highly doubt that a dragon prince was going to swoop in to save me. Simply because this wasn't a fairy tale if not a haunting nightmare.
Flailing my arms out at my side to catch my balance is a futile attempt as the blowing wind does nothing to help my progress and only achieves to make me fall father over the edge, and by the time I know it I feel my toes hover in the air over the roof's edge. I gasp as I feel the air rush up around me making my hair and dress whip crazily around me. Up overhead I can see stars peeking through the cracks in the drifting clouds and the edge of the roof is in plain view, but no one seems to be watching me fall.
I don't scream, there doesn't seem to be a reason to do So and in all honesty I don't feel the slightest bit of fear at this moment. Instead I wonder what would have happened if I had just gone with Kageyama and the others allowing them to take me away to who knows where. Would they have really told me everything that I wanted to know, or would more lies have been given to me instead? Was my mom really killed, or had grandpa actually said the truth with her dying of a sickness she had definitely had?
Well, I guess it didn't matter since I was falling to my death.
"Lucy!" I hear someone yell out my name through the whipping wind that fills my ears, and I don't bother to turn to see who it is. Truth is that I don't want them to save me, and it has partially to do with what Kageyama had said to me earlier and partially with the fact that I was tired of fearing every little thing. I mean, who would have known that falling could be so calming and peaceful, "LUCY!"
Arms wrap around me in a warm embrace and I turn in time to see dark amber eyes glaring angrily down at me with such beautiful rage and saddness. Amber eyes are the last thing I see before something hard hits the back of my head with a terribly force that causes me to black out.
Kageyama had told me that they were just like me.
He had told me that I was already dead.
So what do you all think? I worked extra hard on this chapter and I'm pretty happy with how it came out and I hope you all guys enjoyed it. I had actually been waiting to write this chapter for a while and truth be told I wasn't going to tell you what Kageyama told Lucy, but I decided to have a heart and tell you anyway. Yes, Lucy is dead. How and why? Well you'll just have to keep reading to find out.
*Spoiler*
Next chapter will reveal what happened to her before Chelia erased her memories and where Freed attacked her. Yes, if you didn't already know Freed was the one who attacked Lucy. So please look out for that.
Shout Outs
I want to give tremendous thanks to my Fantastic Favorites...
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And to all of my Fatabulous Reviewers...
- FanFictionLeon = Yes, I read both 418 and 419 and I liked them both. When Natsu came out I totally squealed like a little girl. I loved how the ending of chapter 419 kinda resembled the first (or was it the second) chapter of the manga where the army is chasing both Natsu and Lucy and I'm shocked about Makarov just disappearing. I'm so excited as to what's going to happen next. On my story note, yes, it was a cliffhanger. I couldn't help it but I hope you liked this chapter.
- ScarletRoseAngel = Thank you so much. You don't know how much it warms my heart to hear such wonderful words and I am more than honored that my story has been the first story you've read on fanfic. I'm so happy that you're enjoying my story so far and I completely agree with the whole new look thing for Natsu and Lucy along with everyone else.
- Reallyfanofstories = I'm glad you enjoyed my last chapter and I also hope you enjoyed this one as well.
- Snavej = I have been getting sleep, thank you, and I'm glad You liked the chapter and I hope you enjoyed this one as well.
- MeGustaZeref = They're dead! As to how this is possible you'll have to keep on reading my lovely reader to find out the many more secrets Hidden within Magnolia.
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- BeastlyTick59 = I'm sorry Beast, I can't help myself. What I had said previously of keeping you in the dark was going to stay until I saw your review and realized how mean that would be so I told you something you were going to learn eventually. I'll try my best not to write too many cliffhangers, but I can only promise so much. Hopefully this chapter was a little bit better.
- iamthewerepire = I'm happy that you're enjoying my story, and I wouldn't have dubbed myself DemonHeart If I wasn't cruel, but trust me when I say that it will get better.
Well my loves, that's all the shout outs for today.
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Until next time my lovelies.
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(P.S. If you watch the anime Another Lucy's death will slightly make sense. This story is, after all, inspired by that show)