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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, One Hour - The Hanging Tree
"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!"
The attack flew forward with such an intensity that the ground had burns from the speed and energy intensity as it passed. Kira didn't even have enough time to flinch as the attack hit her full on and she was swallowed by it before thrown out like she was shot out of a cannon. The orb exploded as it spit out Kira and hit Kira full on causing her to gain burn marks all over her skin from the intensity of the attack.
She stumbled to her feet, breathing heavily with blood running down her arms and face. Kira lets out a maddening laugh before raising her hand up, palm flat.
Scorpio and Leo flank her sides while Aquarius takes the front, all three still surprised by the power wielded by Lucy.
Shadow Lucy however stumbled back slightly after the attack but fortunately went unnoticed by her spirits but unfortunately not by Kira who smirked.
Shadow Lucy fell to her knees as her form flashed red for a moment as they were losing against their strive for life. Chief, we're losing aren't we? Shadow Lucy asked the original telepathically. She didn't get an immediate response at first but then, Yes. The answer was unfortunate but Shadow Lucy refused to lose her life so soon.
Switch with me, I know how to save us. Shadow Lucy says suddenly and firmly.
Are you sure? Our body can't take much more. Our world is almost gone, only the ground I stand on remains. The original Lucy responds unsurely.
Yes! Trust me, Chief. Shadow Lucy responds urgently but determined.
Alright, I trust you shadow. The original responds before focusing on her link with her shadow. Shadow Lucy smirks allowing her shadows to absorb back inside the original's body.
And Lucy? Thank you..
Inner World..
Lucy's shadow stood back in her world, the area was gone, all except the ground she stood upon and the area the spirit wolf stood on. "Hey Kei." The shadow greeted the wolf as he approached her. "You're doing it aren't you?" He asked her, stopping in front of her. The shadow gave him a slight nod before saying, "It's the only way to ensure her survival."
Kei nodded. "You realize that everything she has yet to discover from you will be uncovered when you do this correct?" He asked her, and got an annoyed grunt from the shadow. "Yeah, yeah. I'm aware but she'll just have to learn it all herself. Or from you." The shadow told him.
Kei sat down and shot the shadow an unamused expression. "So now your pushing all your duties unto me?" He sighs and shakes his head. "Fine, I'll do it." The shadow smirks at him. "I knew you would." Gaining an irritated bark from the wolf.
"Besides I'll still be with her, she just won't know it. I am her shadow after all you know?" The shadow told Kei, though it seemed more to herself than to him. Kei nods before standing up. "If this is her best chance in living, then we will do what we can." He says before moving to the shadow's side.
The shadow smiles at him. "Staying here while I do this, alright. Suit yourself." She tells him, gaining an equal smirk from the wolf.
"Prepare yourself, Lucy."
Back in reality..
The three celestial spirits jumped back startled at the sudden magic burst from their summoner, turning a glance to their master they were met with a none-shadow-cloaked Lucy and instead a blood-drenched Lucy.
Lucy looked up in their eyes, her dead but tired eyes before looking at Kira. A memory suddenly hit her causing her to realize something -
I remember when I was dying, wounds covering my body and painted my fair skin a crimson red. Pain launched throughout my body and I was constantly hacking up blood.
I remember when I focused my magic into the inside of my body to seal the wounds up from the inside, even though I ended up magic exhausted my life was saved.
I can do that now..
Lucy closed her eyes when the fighting between her spirits and Kira continue. This will take up two of my auras. Might as well keep the strongest aura for this battle, even if it's amount has been lessened by Kira's usage of it.
She imagined the inside of her body, and combined her green and red auras together before placing them into her wounds on the inside. Slowly her body began to nit her wounds back together like invisible stitches. The blood stopped leaving her body and the blood in her throat was swallowed back down. Her arm healed over but could not regenerate, leaving a stump where her right arm had once been at the shoulder.
When she opened her eyes she could feel the last of her aura encircling her, and the closure of her wounds. She stood up with renewed strength and looked on as Kira knocked a fist so forcefully into Scorpio's stomach he was sent back to the spirit world.
Aquarius let out an angry yell before slamming her urn down facing Kira causing a tsunami to strike upon Kira. Kira however focused her magic into her feet created a white surf board similar to Lucy's own and easily glided over the wave and grabbed a nearby Leo before chucking him inside the tsunami, forcing him to retreat back into his own world.
Kira let her white surf disappear and turned to Aquarius right as Lucy walked up to her side, startling the water spirit slightly. "I'm fine, but this battle needs to come to an end." Lucy told her, and got into a battle stance.
Kira chuckled at Lucy, though was in slight surprise in Lucy's state. "You are something else lost one, but you have lost already." She told the healed and recovered Lucy. "We'll just have to see about that, won't we Bloody Angel?" Lucy retorted back, before summoning a sword into remaining her left hand. It was like her green and red swords, only that this one was completely black and was the length of a greatsword.
"Retreat, Aquarius." Lucy tells the water spirit who looks at her in surprise and slight hesitance before nodding and returning to her world in a flash of golden light.
Lucy turns to Kira and raises her great katana up, her red and green eyes were now black with the last aura remaining. "Come Kira, let's finish this." Lucy says before launching forward at Kira who raises her hands summoning her two white katanas.
The two collide with Kira's swords forming an X to block the strike of the significant katana. Kira pushed her swords forward against Lucy's strength causing Lucy to leap backwards to evade and deflect every attack responded from Kira. Lucy suddenly hits the ground and does a side-sweep with her feet before leaping a hand stand back waving her katana to the side with elegance.
The two leap back from each other before both simultaneously letting out a roar. The white and black vortexes collide with equal force before exploding, Kira and Lucy ducking down to avoid the flying debris and building intensity of their combined auras.
Kira then rushes to her feet and grabs a standing up Lucy before throwing her back, following with a kick to the stomach, and a punch to the chin. Lucy lands harshly on her back sliding before leaping up and running forward with her katana raises forward. She dives forward like an incoming missile and grazes Kira with the edge of her sword before spinning a right sweep at her leg but receives a blocked kick to her side sending her a few stumbles back.
Slowly the two fast travel while trading blows towards a large cliff, Kira's ideal of direction and soon the duo are right outside of it. Lucy notices this and sends lightning quick blows at Kira, who dodges half of them while her body heals the cuts.
Kira suddenly get's the upper hand on an opening on Lucy's part and wrenches Lucy's aura blade from her hand with her swords before embedding her own sword into her left leg causing Lucy to let out a grunt and fall to the ground on her back with Kira towering over her.
"I told you, you've already lost." Kira told her, before cloaking her hand with her white aura and slamming her hand into Lucy's chest. Blood spews from Lucy's mouth as her fist buries itself into Lucy's chest similar to what had happened to Rogue and Lucy knew it.
Her black eyes darkened when Kira's hand closed around her head, the white aura slicing her heart chambers and arteries into ribbons. Lucy wants to struggle but she finds her brain unresponsive. No soon later Kira smirks before removing Lucy's heart from her own body leaving Lucy staring at her heart bleeding into Kira's hand.
She couldn't even think clearly, a thousand thoughts jumbling into one with a thousand images passing through her eyes. Her life flashing through her eyes one could call it, until her body went slack. Though she couldn't feel emotions she could feel the absence of the drumming beat thrumming inside her being.
Her onyx eyes stared at her blood spurting heart as her soul began to pull itself from her reaping body. She let out a final spurt of blood from her mouth before her head turned to the left, her right eye catching the white aura as it disintegrated her heart into a pile of white dust before it disappeared into the wind as though her heart never existed.
And then, Lucy died.
Inside the Celestial World..
The spirits were in their world, doing their thing. Leo was talking with Aries as they walked through the lunar forest, Plue danced with his cousins, brothers, and sisters while Lyra played her background beautiful music, Aquarius sat at the edge of the beach looking out at the shining ocean smiling with Scorpio's arm leaning across her shoulders, Virgo randomly sweeping the dining hall, Gemini dancing in the air as they sung their odd tunes, Taurus swinging his axe around showing off to the lady-cows, Sagittarius shooting targets with his bow, Cancer braiding his hair, Capricorn shining his horns, Crux sleeping, Horologium fixing the gears of his chamber, Pyxis running in random directions, and the Spirit King twirling his mustache while letting out the occasional chuckle.
Then all of a sudden they all froze, and looked into the sky before their bodies began to glow gold or silver depending on their key type, while the Spirit king's expression turned to one of sadness. The spirits that had glowed in their color now held a replica of their key, with two words carved into the key before it vanished.
Every spirit's eyes widened while tears shone in their eyes in many whether they had a contract or not. Aries fell into a fit of tears leaving Leo into holding her close while his own tears bled from his eyes. Plue wailed and shivered while his family comforted him, Lyra let out tears and couldn't touch her harp for a moment before she began to play a very sad tune, Aquarius had her facing the ocean while a few drops of tears fell into the waters of the sea while Scorpio held her tight, Gemini was looking down with tears falling to the ground like rain, Virgo's clear expression turned grim, Taurus walked away from his axe lying on the ground, Sagittarius stared at his bow in sadness, Cancer stared solemnly into his mirror, his hair left unbraided, Capricorn had his head in his hands believing himself a failure in not protecting Lucy, Crux was no longer sleeping, Horologium's midnight charm went off, and Pyxis stopped running and let a few tears fall.
The spirit world mourned for the death of their favored and most respected summoner, the words on their key replicas never disappearing from their memories. What put the celestial world into sorrow were the two elegantly carved words in their keys that said - Contractor Deceased.
Inner World..
The shadow of Lucy closed her eyes, her swords glowing before falling into a pile to the side of Kei. Her body began to glow a faint golden before shinning so bright it lit up the night sky or the world. Slowly the world began to rebuild itself, the rivers connecting the world once again, and the moon reappeared.
Shadow Lucy opened her eyes once the world was whole once again, her eyes were now golden, while her body began to fade. She turned to Kei and combed a hand through his thick midnight fur. "Take care of her, Kei." The shadow told him, before she faded completely before a strong gust of wind shook the entire world as her spirit drifted away.
Outside World..
Unknown to Kira as she walked inside the cave beneath the cliff, Lucy who had been dead for six minutes was going to live once again. Inside Lucy Heartifilia body, in the place of her missing heart a black energy swirled inside. Slowly the energy shaped itself into the organ heart once more, reconnecting the tubes, chambers, and arteries into the black heart. The black energy pulsed as it re-stitched the holes in Lucy's body, and every injury on her body.
The black heart pulsed again, trying to will the body to live once more, willing the blood to flow again, and yet it wouldn't. Black energy let out a shockwave of energy through the body once more, a final time so strong that an arc of the energy burst from the body and rose into the sky and expanding forming the shape of two black wings before disappearing.
A silence stretched over the land, it was as though even the ghosts of the guilds gone silent awaiting for her to awake from death itself. Kira turned around feeling the sudden change in her victim, and stared at the body of Lucy Heartifilia before shrugging and continuing her way inside the cave.
Not a second later the black heart let out a beat, followed by another and then another until a cadence began inside Lucy's chest. The blood slowly began to move, and as the rhythm picked up the blood was back in it's flowing rhythm, the rest of the body following function according to the cadence.
Lucy was alive once more, a second chance given to her to end this war once and for all. Her shadow had sacrificed herself for her to live again, and now it was all left to her.
And then, her eyes opened revealing golden eyes. With that the outside air of her body exploded into a golden aura, a ferocious and hungry black aura layered over the golden and soon cloaked Lucy's body before reforming. The cloak disappeared and there in it's place stood a huge black wolf that pulsed in the black energy that now made up her heart.
The creature let out an earth-shattering roar, it's black and golden eyes zeroing in on the prey before it launched into a rush for the one that angered it's spirit.
Lucy Heartifilia was alive once more, and she was hungry for revenge.
Originally I considered ending the chapter where she died, but I decided to end it like this here. I think it stops you readers from thinking she's permanently dead, which she did die after all. I personally think this was an excellent chapter, shorter than the others but good.
So what do you readers think?
The next update will be in soon enough, a week at most like usual. So see you then, and thanks for everyone's support for this story!
Sincerely,
The Reaping Wolf