AN: Hey guys, sorry that I have been updating so irregularly but it's nearly summer so during that time I hope to be writing more frequently. I might even be granted time to write more chapters for my other stories that I've been neglecting. Well let's not worry you my starving readers… Let the Awesomeness begin!

Chapter 12

Lucy's POV (currently with a knife still in her gut)

"Like I said, just let us borrow your violent habits for a little while and you can be on your way with your boyfriend." She said with a sly smile.

"Well how can I offer my services to someone whom hasn't even given me the common courtesy of their name?" I said grunting slightly in pain, dots still swimming around my vision. Sting's appearance had brought me out of my lethargic stupor but had done very little to patch up the gaping hole in my stomach.

"Oh my, where are my manners!" She said with a fake gasp and an overly dramatic heaving of her shoulders. "People like to call me the Axeman, although not many people have had the pleasure of spreading my name… if you know what I mean." She said with yet another sly foxy smile, as if she knew everything I didn't. It was starting to get on my nerves.

"Well then… ugh… Axeman if I'm to help you I'm going to need a little bit of medical attention…" I paused almost gasping for breath, shit "And unless your other talents also happen to include sewing people back together, rather than ripping them apart I'd incline you to do so."

She scoffed, "So you still have your witty demeanor even on the brink of death." With a sigh she stepped closer to me and, what some might call ripping off the Band-Aid, yanked the knife right out of my stomach, the pain was blinding.

I took in a sharp breath and spoke to her through gritted teeth, "Ripping me open further was NOT what I had in mind!"

She clicked her tongue at me and said nonchalantly, "Oh, hush up it's not that bad." She was lying, or just very stupid. I could feel my blood starting to form a pool around my midsection; my arms began feel sticky and warm with my own blood. She looked at me with tired eyes and said with a level gaze, "Now this is going to hurt." And without giving me a second to complain she began to pull the skin together with her bare hands. It hurt like hell, and that wasn't even the worst of it. When the skin was as close as it was going to get her hands began to grow hot, almost as if she had wrapped her hands in a burning flame. She took her index finger and lazily traced a line along the wound, sealing it if you could even call it that.

"AAAAAHHHHH!" I yelled out in pain. She wasn't stupid, I had decided, she was just a god damned sadist! The pain was beginning to spread, numbing me completely, starting from the wound itself and traveling down each of my limbs. I began yet again to see spots, but much to my pleasure they were black dots. I could feel myself being pulled down underneath the cover of sleep. The pull eventually became too much for my exhausted body and I fell into the abyss of what was to become the most restless sleep I had ever endured.

Sting POV (as soon as Lucy falls asleep)

It was more of an electric shock than anything, it was almost like my nerves jumped into action. As did I, as soon as I was able to feel my legs I started into a dead sprint towards Lucy. Her body looked pale and limp as I approached her, I was soaked in a tide of her blood as I knelt down next to her. I wrapped my arms around her as gently as I could and locked her in my embrace, a sensation that I was merely seconds away from losing.

"Oh how touching… now get up, we have work to do. The only reason I set you free was so that you could carry her." She said resting an impatient hand on her hip.

I tightened my grip around Lucy's shoulder as I sneered and replied, "And why would I listen to you?"

"Because I just rescued your girlfriend there." She said, and with an easy wave of her hand she mentioned, "And I only did that with the intent that she would help my cause, and she agreed even if it was grudgingly so. Now unless you want me to put another knife in her gut, it would be wise for you to listen to me." With a sigh I stood with a grunt lifting up Lucy as well princess style, geez she's pretty heavy.

"Now let's be on our way… there's someone we must meet." She said with a knowing smile as she turned and started walking away from me.

What have gotten ourselves into, my little Mad Hatter…