To Doom Marine 54 who said - "Hard hat#1: "Hey where should we put this retarded fanfic where Lucy is turned into a woobie by the lazy half-assed author by bashing the rest of fairy tail to make her sympathetic?"

DM54: "Just add it to the pile."

Here's my reply - Why bother reading the story then? 'Cause last I checked I detailed it in the summary. And if you think you know where my story is going, your dead wrong.
Learn to say the facts over half-assed opinions because you only made yourself look like an "lazy half- assed" person.
Just saying.
Oh and if you don't have anything nice to say, don't bother unless your ready to be insulted back by this "lazy half-assed author".

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail

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R.I.P.

Gray Fullbuster

Jack Hollow

Lisanna Strauss

Erza Scarlet

Kagura Mikazuchi

Wendy Marvell

Alice Wonder

Millianna

Hibiki Lates

Hikari Kurai

Navera Narashta

Natsu Dragneel

Marine Lorem

Niel Narashta

Nelliel Deidre

Mirajane Strauss

Lyssa Erien

Kai Shimizu

Lyon Vastia

Rogue Cheney

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R.I.H.

Kaius Damien

Crash Furi

Fayt Landis

Paranoia Lectra

Leah Cross

Judas Deamon

Rae Yasasshi

Kuchiku Grimm

Disclaimer: I do not own the music that I listened to when making this, Three Days Grace: One X, Album

"You see these are blood daggers, and no matter how hard you try, you cannot remove them because they are made of your own protection barriers in your blood. The moment you try to pull away it will just snap you back in place." Kira told her, tabbing the grip of the hilt of the dagger in her abdomen.

In return, she got a blood spurt to her face. Kira only smirked though and wiped the blood on her finger before sucking the blood off. "Mmm, your blood only makes me stronger Lucy."

She got a growl in response from the blood. Kira smirked and summoned a crimson sword into her hand, and began to lightly trail the tip of the sword along Lucy's body, light enough that she received no harm, yet in the slightest movement she would find herself cut by the blade of her own blood. "Ever wonder what it would be like to be pierced by your own blood?" Kira asked her, as she settled on Lucy's right arm, right below the shoulder.

Lucy tried not to notice and instead stared straight ahead. "Ever wonder why you became a physco?"

Kira just smiled before she dug the blade into the very top layer of her skin. "What the hell are you doing now, bitch?!" Lucy demanded, feeling the blade sink all the way through a centimeter of her flesh. She had a sinking feeling in her stomach on the excited look in the Bloody Angel's eyes and even though she had no emotions she knew she would be feeling worried if she could.

"Separating your soul from the flesh."

Lucy couldn't watch as Kira sawed the crimson blade through her arm. She wanted her emotions back as unfortunate that would be for her if she really had them right now, but it just felt so.. wrong without them. She can hear the muscle in her arm tearing as the blade slowly nears her bone, and she considers throwing up at the thought, yet she doesn't feel disgust. No, she doesn't feel anything at all, and she wants to be scared of it, but she just can't feel anything.

She wants her emotions back; she wants to scream in agony in what Kira is doing to her; she wants to cry; she wants to be saddened by the loss of her comrades and Rogue; she wants to be angry for killing the one who had faith in her; she wants to be fucking disgusted by Kira and yet she feels nothing.

At the moment of hearing the sharp crack! Lucy's heart skipped a beat before pumping blood faster. Lucy couldn't look, and didn't need to anyways as her vision blacked. Though when her vision recovered she couldn't help but take a glance and what she saw really almost made her scream.

Her arm was god-damned fucking gone!

Well, removed would be the better word but as Lucy stared at the stunt of her dominant arm that was seriously bleeding out she felt her brain fuzz again and what she assumed was bile build up in her throat. She barely looked down enough to see her arm laying on the ground, and soon her gaze turned to Kira who stabbed removed arm with the same blade and brought it towards her.

"I'll kill...you...bitch!" Lucy gasps out, another spurt of blood leaving her lips and soaking her chin. Kira only smirks and gathers her white aura around Lucy's severed arm, before forcing Lucy to watch as she obliviated her arm until nothing remains.

Lucy stares at where her severed arm just was and just couldn't believe what she had just lost. Something she would never gain back too. She was saved from further thoughts and possibly torture when her body blacked out on her again. Though this time she did more than lose consciousness into the void, but she also felt another memory push forward into her mind.

I remember standing at the top of a newly created mountain of human skeletons. The land was destroyed and ashened by the dragons and this mountain is every member of Fairy Tail that took the first attack of Acnologia breathe. I remember they're screams before their flesh was literally and immediately severed from their bodies, their eyes melting into the back of their heads, and their hair catching on fire before all that was left were their steaming skeletons.

Some humans evacuated and I assume they were running for the bunks however some black dragons had swooped in and grabbed anyone that tried to run before tossing them away to their death 100,000 feet above the ground. The sound of their bodies exploding once they hit the ground was terrifying, and I nearly threw up on the sight.

I had to move though, sun was dawning and the night dragons would be coming out in a few hours. How I've survived so long is beyond me, but one thing I know for sure is I will survive this world and I will continue to live. Never surrendering to these winged lizard-skin purses.

And if I ever had the chance for a re-do, I would be stronger.. but I would also save my comrades from betraying me another time in another universe. Though of course, what are the chances of that ever happening? With me the chances are one out of three trillion.

There is no going back, only moving forward.

Lucy woke up from the memory and unconsciousness, hacking up more blood and was surprised she hadn't bled out yet. She had a theory her shadow had something to do with it but kept the thought to the back of her mind and looked up to see Kira no longer in front of her.

She was actually by the very end of the field, looking into the river, as though she had grown tired of me or maybe she's just giving me a break from her torture. Though I doubt it's the latter.

I will not lose to you!

Lucy focused on her breathing and ignored her frantic heart-beat as she focused on her aura. Kira had taken one of her auras, and it would probably be her black aura meaning she still has her red and green auras. Each aura has different strengths, and although Kira took her most valued aura, Lucy knew her fight was not over.

Her green aura would probably be the best choice, this one based on speed but also was her original light blue aura that was dyed green when she discovered this Lost Soul magic. Slowly she brought a wisp strand of her green aura and wrapped it around the dagger in her left ankle and slowly began to pull it out. She knew she was still losing blood and that pulling out these daggers wouldn't help but she could not remained pegged to this tree like a dart target.

She removed the other dagger from her ankle silently and dropped the daggers to the ground which ironically reformed into a puddle of blood the moment it hit the ground. Next she brought the green wisp strand to the dagger in her stomach and pulled that dagger out, willing herself to not black out as she did so. Once that dagger was reduced into a blood puddle she used to wisp to take out the last dagger in her palm and let the dagger drop to the ground to reform into a blood puddle with the rest before she let her body slouch against the tree.

She could hear her heart thrumming quickly, and her vision dotted in black but she forced herself to move (though it was more like stumbling) and slowly limped to the river. Thankfully Kira did not have her focus on Lucy, and she was able to make it almost half-way to the river before her body gave up on her and she landed face first into the dust.

Lucy kept her eyes opened though, and began to drag her towards the river with just the strength of her remaining arm, unknowingly leaving a trail of blood with every movement.

She made it to the river at perfect timing, and had just unhooked one of her keys when Kira turned around finally noticing her, but she was too late to stop Lucy from dipping the key into the water and summoning, "Open Gate of the Water Bearer, Aquarius!"

Granted, when Aquarius was summoned by Lucy out of the absolute nowhere she was ready to give Lucy a piece of her mind but froze before she even got the first syllable out of her mouth. The reason for this was because the sight before her was horrifying.

Lucy was bleeding out for one, and the blood trail towards the river had her realize that Lucy had literally dragged herself to the river in her state in order to summon her. Another thing was that the area was destroyed, with splashes of blood in the occasional area. She also saw that Lucy was missing her dominant arm, and was wounded in several places.

What worried her the most was the look Lucy was giving her. Not one of sadness or pleading but just nothing. She could only stare as Lucy let out a slow cough and then a heavier and stronger cough of blood away from the river. Lucy never lost eye-contact with Aquarius though.

"Distract her, if you would." Lucy asked, sort of. This confused Aquarius, where was Lucy Heartifilia from just about a year ago? Leo had said she had changed in appearance, but Aquarius could sense it was far more than that.

"Go!" Lucy shouted at her, ignoring the cost of the action when her wounds bled out quicker. She looked over at the smirking Kira that was eyeing Aquarius in excitement. "Just give me time." Lucy told her, before laying her body back to the ground sighing.

Aquarius didn't move at first, but when she did her eyes were now glowing in ferocity at the harm that was brought to Layla's daughter. Aquarius lifted her urn of water up, before launching forward with her first attack against the Bloody Angel.

Lucy could no longer move her body, it was as though her body was collapsing on itself and she could do nothing to stop it. She felt cold somehow, but not like a wind of the breeze, but more like the cold death was approaching. She slowly let out a shaky breath and glanced at the ferocious mermaid fighting Kira one last time before her eyes shut close.

When Lucy awoke she was back in her familiar inner world. The night sky reflected the light of the stars and the moon upon the land as a wolf's howl sounded. The leaves of the trees swayed gently against the light breezes and Lucy could hear the tricking of the rivers as well.

"Need some help there eh, chief?" A voice asked to the side. Lucy turned and was once again met with her shadow. She was the same as before with ghostly pale skin, black hair and clothing, though her eyes were different. Still the same black base but the ring closest to the pupil was red while the outer ring was now green.

The many swords around her belt straps were still blurry, well all except one this time. And the one that was revealed was none other than Rogue's katana, though Lucy decided she'll save the question for later. "Yes." Lucy replied, and watched as a grin broke free from her shadows before shadowing into a frown.

"Awesome! Although I will only have a limited time. Our body is dying and I will try to heal it the best I can but the amount of blood we've lost raises out risks in death. Lucy nods, before holding out her hand. "I'll try to help you from the inside, but as you said our chances I survival are low. We. Will. Not. Die however. No matter what." Lucy says calmly but firmly to the end of discussion.

Shadow Lucy smiles before accepting Lucy's hand before exploding into red, green, and black wisps and shooting up into the sky. The original Lucy only sighs before walking towards one of the rivers, shaking her head slowly before muttering, "My shadow is too strange for my own good."

In reality..

A dark energy suddenly surged into the area causing Aquarius and Kira to falter for a moment and leaped away from each other to look for the source of dark magic. What they saw was a red and green aura shooting out of Lucy like a vortex. The auras circled around each other at a warp speed before suddenly retreating back into Lucy's body so quickly it could have been missed in a link. Her body pulsed twice before disappearing into the silence.

Aquarius stared at Lucy's still and unmoving body with a hint of fear that she was dead, that was until Lucy's body slowly rose to her feet before literally turning into a 3D shadow. The shadow grew long red claws and a tail before it turned in Kira and Aquarius's direction where it let out a roar so loud it blew the trees back slightly by the sheer force.

The shadows slowly formed a shadow arm in place of the missing arm before flexing the arm to recall the feeling of the arm that had been severed not an hour before.

Shadow Lucy then pulled a brilliant green colored katana from her stomach, as though it was being grabbed from an abyss before pulling out a crimson colored katana with her other hand out of her stomach before flicking them downwards to remember the familiar feeling and looked back at the duo before her.

"Your not Lucy." Aquarius said, while Kira smiled in glee at what stood before them.

Shadow Lucy raised her blades and got into her swordsman battle stance before replying evenly, "No, I'm her shadow!" She said before running into a sprint at Kira and slammed her blades downwards at Kira who just barely evaded. Kira quickly summoned her chained scythes once more but this time when they came at Shadow Lucy they were immediately deflected no matter how much speed or strength Kira put into it.

Shadow Lucy darted past Kira and landed to the left of Aquarius with ease before grinning at the mermaid. "We're still allies aren't we? Your still out here proving that I am still Lucy, just her.. darker side." Shadow Lucy said before launching forward and deflecting the swinging scythes at her once again and laughed as she fought off Kira's attacks easily.

Kira suddenly made her chained scythes disappear before forming a familiar black orb in her hands. "Death orb." Kira said before throwing it at Shadow Lucy, who rolled out of the way and quickly shoved Aquarius out of the way as the orb passed along with a thick wave of death that killed everything in it's range and path.

"Dark Magic." Shadow Lucy heard Aquarius whisper in shock, but all in all ignored her as she lunged at Kira once again with the death orb out of range.

"Death wave!" Kira shouted, a black pulse shooting out of her before expanding into a wave in a quick pace headed towards Shadow Lucy who laughed before calling upon her black surf and easily flew over it. Aquarius was also wise enough to use her water to surf her above the wave as well, and one it had finally passed, Shadow Lucy leaped off the board and tackled Kira to the ground.

Shadow Lucy then raised her twin katanas upwards before slamming them down into Kira's stomach. Kira's glass wings shattered as Shadow Lucy pushed her green and red aura inside Kira's body before retreating with a black aura, returning the aura to the original owner and taking back the power Kira had stolen from Shadow Lucy and the original.

"Mine!" Shadow Lucy hissed while barring her fangs before yanking her swords out before making them explode into wisps to return to their sheaths on her back.

Kira roared out a white vortex to get Lucy off of her, which worked and Kira was up on her feet immediately. She smirked as Shadow Lucy noticed her open wounds almost immediately heal completely where not even the faintest scars remained.

"I'm indestructible, insane, and cannot feel pain so you must have realized that you cannot win this battle." Kira told her, smiling with victory.

Shadow Lucy replied with a literal earth shattering scream, she waved her shadow arm towards Kira and almost immediately the shattered earth barreled towards Kira. Kira ran forward before slamming her right fist into the boulder causing it to explode and become harmless to Kira.

Shadow Lucy though appeared behind her and swung both swords at Kira in a downwards arc, and Kira was left head-butting Shadow Lucy's forehead to cause her to stumble backwards and saver her from the attack. Though Shadow Lucy was more startled than harmed, at all, and immediately let out another inhuman roar at Kira causing another wave of shattered earth to barrel at her.

Kira leapt over the attack, landing with a roll before raising her fist in the air and slamming it to the ground while shouting, "Skeleton Knights!"

Nothing happened immediately, but then the earth split open in various areas, while a skeletal version of creatures and even some people crawled out from their ancient graves and slowly made their way towards Shadow Lucy and Aquarius like zombies hungry for flesh.

Shadow Lucy of course charged in head first with swords slashing at every skeletal thing she sees, not even sparing a second glance as her sword cuts through the bones and severs the skeletons into pieces, cutting every bone into powder as to they not rise again. While with Aquarius she was waving her urn in every direction, the force of the waves sending the skeletons she hit flying to the other side of Fiore.

Shadow Lucy froze for a split second before continuing her onslaught against the skeletal knights. Chief, I gonna need to call for some back up, we're losing control! Shadow Lucy told the original telepathically whilst in battle. Twenty more skeletons down and she finally gets a reply from the original.

I hear you, our world has begun to collapse on itself. It seems as though the rivers are holding what's left, well from falling into who knows where.

Call out Scorpio and Leo, they're going to be the best for a battle against Kira. I'm trying to link my spirit with the roots of the trees in those that remain in the world to keep it steady, but I won't be able to hold it much longer..

And with that their telepathy link is cut off. Shadow Lucy frowns before roaring once more, her black cortex taking care of the rest of the remaining skeletal creatures. Shadow Lucy then leapt back to Aquarius's side who looked over at her cautiously.

"I don't have much time left, so work together with these two alright? I need you three to hold her off as long as you can. I'll fight the best I can while I can but if I ever stop in the midst of battle, do not dare stop to check on me. I need you out here!" Shadow Lucy told her before pulling out the keys of Scorpio and Leo's.

"Open Gate of the Scorpion, Scorpio! Open Gate of the Lion, Leo!" Shadow Lucy shouts, pushing the original's magic inside to prevent the keys from corruption.

Scorpio and Leo appeared in a flash of golden light to the left of Aquarius and the three celestial spirits all stared at Shadow Lucy in surprise who smirked at their expense.

"I'm stronger than I was a year ago, now quit gaping and ATTACK!" Shadow Lucy shouts before forming a huge orb made of her black, green, and red auras. "Come on, combine into Unison raid!" She shouts at them, and soon the orb had grown twice in size and was now combined in all four of their magic strength.

What should we call it chief? Shadow Lucy asked telepathically and got an irritated tone from the original.

I don't know, I'm trying to keep our world from collapsing further!

Shadow Lucy smirked. Come on, I'll leave you alone if you just give this awesome attack a name!

Shadow Lucy could just hear the original sighing inside their world. Gah, fine! Just call it-

"LOST CELESTIAL EXPLOSION!"

Well, there you guys go. Exciting isn't it? Thought I'd add a little humor at the end with Lucy and her shadow. Next chapter will hopefully be posted on the weekend since this one also thankfully got in early.

These chapters will be posted pretty fast (but still long in words) since I've been waiting three months for this battle!

Feel free to support and comment, I want to know what's on some of you readers minds' about what you think of the story thus far and the chapter. Negative or positive is good, but if it's just flat out rude you'll get the same reply Doom Marine 54 got at the very beginning of this chapter in the Author's Notice from me.

"Read to Escape" as my motto goes ;D

Sincerely,

The Reaping Wolf