Emotionless
Chapter 49, Contracts and Keys
Still cannot believe how far this story has gone, or the amount of updates I've gotten in here in under a week. Thanks for school being out for a week, can't wait to see how many I'll have out over summer ;)
On another account, you guys should check out this soundtrack (that I disclaim) - James Horner - The Bioluminescence of the Night. It's from the Avatar and besides it being my favorite movie it's also my favorite soundtrack series.
And to all those that have siblings, I feel for you. My brother is annoying the death out of me, and I prefer to keep the dead part of me XD
One more thing, I figured Gray teaming up with Lucy would be my way of apologizing for killing Gray off first, I know from the comments that a lot of people were cursing me for Juvia to hunt me down and slowly torture me to death, but also because it fits in with the road I've set Lucy up on.
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail
Normal Pov..
The Kingdom Castle of Fiore is located in Crocus, the Capital of Fiore. That's where Lucy and Gray were currently headed, however they had to catch a different train to head there, which didn't arrive for another two hours.
Lucy found this as the best time to take care of some business with her new keys and after borrowing 10,000 jewels from Gray that she promised she would repay later, get a new chain to place her keys on.
Her first stop was a gift shop, where she picked two long chains. Luckily they cost 5,000 jewels each, so she could take both.
Though they weren't black life her previous one and were instead silver, they were strong and sturdy and appeared like it would take a lot of force to snap the chain.
She turned one of the chains into a necklace while the other she hooked unto her pants. On the chain around her neck she had all of the major keys while on her pants she had the minor keys on.
She planned to make a contract with both the Mythical and the Hell keys however she also didn't want to frighten the civilians with them and make a scene so she headed into a field before pulling out her three new keys.
The two obsidian keys on one hand while the mythical ones were held in the other.
"This better work." Lucy grumbled to herself, before tucking the two obsidian keys into her cloak and focusing on Kenzou the Cerebus.
Lucy shifted to her side before pointing the key forward and began to chant, hoping the information in the book wasn't wrong.
"I am the person who connects the road to the ancient world.. Thou, shalt respond to the calling and pass through the gate. Open a door to the Cerebus, Kenzou!"
A portal formed in front of the key before a flash of golden light, darker than the Celestial spirits, and a deep but gurgling growl erupted from the portal before the light faded.
In front of her stood a seven foot tall three headed pit bull. The three heads growled at her, and approached her but Lucy kept her ground. Even as the creature opened it's jaws and slowly licked her neck, and brought it's fangs gently across the flesh on her neck before pulling away and flopping on the ground in front of her, it's bloody-red colored fur brushed by the wind as it's golden eyes stared at her.
"You summoned?" The head in the middle spoke.
Lucy withdrew the key, and placed it back on the chain on her neck.
"Yes, I was wondering if you wanted to form a contract?" Lucy asked the Cerebus, slowly kneeling to it.
The Cerebus nodded his head, before walking towards Lucy and placing one of it's paws on her shoulder.
"I suppose so, you seem worthy enough. Thou, know that ye can only call us out once you've formed a bond between us, a bond so strong that we can feel each other to our souls." Kenzou told her, before pressing his paw down on her shoulder and pulling away.
"Do you accept?" He asked her, and Lucy nodded with a confirmed, "Yes."
"The process is painful, but it will prove thou worth it." Kenzou said before his body dissolved into golden particles that suddenly flew towards her, and hit her in the palm of her right hand when she lifted her hands up as a shield by instinct.
The golden particles absorbed into her skin, and Lucy felt her hand go numb from what she assumed to be pain, only her soul couldn't feel it. The key on her chain also dissolved into golden particles before following the path of the Cerebus into her hand.
Slowly a rune formed on her skin in golden ink, forming a symbol of the Cerebus which was basically the same as the symbol of the key but with ancient words scripted in a circle around the three heads.
The numbing soon left, and the Cerebus reappeared through the portal rune in her palm.
The Cerebus bowed to her swiftly with all his three heads before straightening and speaking. "I see your soul is void of emotion and your heart has been replaced with the shadows, yet it is filled with the intent of good and so, I accept your companion ship, partner. I will come when you shall call thou in need, farewell friend." And with his last word, he dissolved into golden particles once more, and returned to the portal in which has been carved in her hand.
Lucy stared at her palm for a moment longer before pulling out one of the Obsidian keys.
Bringing her left thumb to her mouth, she bit sharply into it hard enough to withdraw blood.
Sighing, she ran her blood along the Obsidian key, encasing it with her blood before holding it out in front of her and began to chant.
"I am the mortal who connects the road to the depths of Hell... Thou, shalt respond to the calling and pass through the gate. Open a door to the Shinigami, Kyoki!"
Nothing happened at first, but then a black portal opened in front of a key and slowly a red bladed scythe hooked unto the portal before a being so frightening leaped out of the portal and turned towards Lucy as the red portal dispersed back into the key.
She appeared young in mortal years but was probably centuries on millennias of years old. Her skin was deathly pale and her hair was a black as night, going straight down to her shoulders. Her face was sharp and flawless except for the single faint scar that went from her cheek to her chin on the left side of her face. Her eyes were black with a violet iris and red pupil, frightening and unnatural.
She was dressed in a long sleeve off-the-shoulder white shirt that went down to her waist along with black and white leggings, and finished off with a pair of bloody steel toed combat books.
Large twelve- foot black wings hung from her back - clipped, though looked as deadly and withered as the result of a death magic attack.
Her accessories were a spiked choker around her neck with a skull that bled tears similar to the red tears down her own eyes and the skull on the key itself.
In her hands though, she held a scythe the size of herself which was nothing small standing a good six-feet. The blade was long and curved, dyed red and held by the black handle of the blade.
She indeed fit the symbol of the weeping shinigami, and the strength she held rolled off her in black waves that pulsed in her darkened aura.
"You called?" She grumbled, reminding Lucy of Aquarius for a moment before she remembered the situation she was in.
Lucy knew from the book that kneeling to her showed submission, and that was the last thing a demon would want, or a spirit of death itself.
Being casual was a sign of insuperiority, which would have Lucy in the place of the scythe in her gut so that was out.
So, Lucy did the only thing she knew she could offer.
To treat her as her equal, the highest respect she could possibly offer.
"Kyoki the Shinigami, I ask you if you would like to form a contract with myself and I." Lucy asked her, her voice a void of emotion and her eyes held the respect that only her body could reveal.
Kyoki studied her, before disappearing in a flash of movements until she reappeared in front of Lucy, with her scythe angled behind her neck in a cut-throat position.
"Hmm, and what could you possibly give me in return?" Kyoki asked her, not moving her scythe an inch from Lucy's neck.
"To fight without restrain, swing that scythe of yours to your hearts delight, and of course my respect." Lucy replied, her eyes holding no fear of the deadly weapon held at her neck, or the demon eyes that stared back at her.
Kyoki removed the scythe from her neck and placed it in the ground before her, before wrenching Lucy's face up to get a good look into her eyes.
"Hn, yes you will do. I expect a pint of blood from you at the end of every summoning or you will find my scythe chopping of your head. This is a contract in blood after all.
"Or you could pay me right now, but at the cost of feeling my scythe enter your body and feel the pain that hell has offer me in return for madness." Kyoki spoke so calmly, and in expectancy.
Lucy saw it as a test, either go through the pain that she has gone through, or take the easier way out.
Either way, Lucy wouldn't feel it.
"I'll take the latter." A glint formed in Kyoki's eyes at her words, and not a moment later did she force the deadly blade of the scythe into Lucy's body and straight out with the curve facing the sky.
Kyoki expected a scream of agony or terror, but instead she only got a frown from Lucy who was tracing her finger along the blade that was now coated in her blood.
Frowning, Kyoki tried twisting the blade that was most likely tearing up her intestines but still gained no reaction from Lucy.
Then, realization dawned in her eyes and she yanked her scythe out of Lucy's form, who stumbled back from the force the scythe was removed out of her from.
"You cannot feel.." It was not a question but a statement, and Kyoki found herself smiling at Lucy's form as she flicked her own blood off her hands in what appeared to be curiosity.
Kyoki walked forward and knelt down to Lucy before slitting her hand open with her teeth and forcing her own blood down Lucy's throat.
Slowly, Lucy's wound in her stomach began to close up, and Lucy felt a strange burning feeling in her body, it was hard to describe for a mortal that couldn't feel.
"There, the blood contract has been signed and complete. You call me only when you need me, and only then." With those words, she disappeared in a whoosh of black flames.
Lucy groaned in annoyance on having another Hell key to deal with it but still pulled out her other Obsidian key.
"This is going to be a pain that will be a pain." Lucy grumbled to herself, slitting her hand open again, before breathing out a slow breath and turning the key forward in front of her as she chants.
""I am the mortal who connects the road to the depths of Hell... Thou, shalt respond to the calling and pass through the gate. Open a door to the Nightlock, Evilyn!"
A silver portal opened in front of the Obsidian key this time, so bright that Lucy had to look away as to not be blinded, but when she returned her eyes the portal had dispersed and the next being of death had arrived.
Unlike the previous Hell being who had a murderous feeling coming off of her, and a black aura this particular being was brighter in a sense of expectancy. For one thing, her aura was silver and an indifferent feeling rolled off of her in smooth winds.
Then, there was her appearance; white hair that flowed gently down to her knees, piercing turquoise eyes that screamed danger, pale skin almost as dead as Kyoki's own, hair framing her face completely covering the right side of her face that made one assume her hidden eye would belong to a demon's own, and she wore a traditional grey kimono with sakura flower designs. She even had a grey sheathed katana strapped to the waist along with two ying and yang styled fang, also designed with blossoms. The outfit was finished off with Japanese sandals making her appearance look beautiful and enchanting but one look at her face and you know you've just walked into Hell.
Fortunately for Lucy, she doesn't have to emotions to feel such a thing.
"Ah, another mortal summons to me in this world.. Thy should know, all my previous attempt summoner mortals all failed the contract and died not long after.." She was trying to see if it would erupt fear inside Lucy, which didn't happen for obvious reasons.
"Well, you got me out here and you don't appear exhausted which would mean you do indeed comply in high capacity of magic, and you are a void of emotion.. very good indeed."
"Evilyn the Nightlock, I ask of you, will you form a contract with me?" Lucy asked, her tone still a void of emotion.
Evilyn seemed to think on it for a moment.
"Perhaps, but the question remains.. how far will you go to have me as your spirit?"
"As far as you'll allow me to go." Lucy responded, determined.
"For power?" Evilyn asked her.
"For a companion on the road." Lucy replied, before adding, "Preferably a partner in battle."
Evilyn smiled softly at this.
"You remind me of someone I used to know, always determined with a will of fire that never died out. Let's see if you are the same, or even more so." Evilyn spoke, before she opened her fans and let a gust of wind fly towards Lucy, creating cuts in every exposed inch of skin.
Lucy never faulted, and remained standing.
She never even showed a hint of pain, and paper cuts suck.
Evilyn then withdrew her katana, revealing the molten steel blade that shined so bright you could see the reflection from the surface.
"Let's see if your worthy enough to wield my key." Evilyn said, before appearing in front of Lucy with a blade going for her legs.
Lucy flipped backwards and blocked a lightning fast attack from Evilyn who appeared by her side, her sword aiming for her side but was blocked by the green aura blade that formed just in time in Lucy's hands.
"That's unlike anything I've ever seen, in a long time." Evilyn whispered in her ear, causing Lucy to duck and roll to the right as Evilyn's blade swiped the area down where she previously stood.
A silver aura suddenly appeared over her katana, before it disappeared once again and Evilyn appeared above her, with Lucy barely reacting in time to block.
Lucy pushed her muscles to hold back Evilyn's blade, who appeared to be holding back as they battled in strength.
If Evilyn went to full strength, Lucy wouldn't stand a chance.
Evilyn moved her fans downwards sending a gust of wind at Lucy that had her rolling fifty times backwards before she go to her feet again, and was nearly impaled by Evilyn's katana.
Evilyn, though missed slicing Lucy in half still got a hold on her, who struggled against her grip. Her aura spiked and the black aura that flowed from Lucy's body caused Evilyn to widen her eyes in amazement that a mortal could wield such a dark magic with a good intent.
It was unheard of, and worthy of a summoner for Evilyn.
So, she let Lucy go.
Lucy immediately turned around so she was facing Evilyn, keeping her sword up just in case for any sort of trickery Evilyn may attempt on her.
"Relax, mortal." The Hell being told her, watching as Lucy allowed her blade to disperse and absorb back into her body as though it was never there in the first place.
"You are worthy to wield my key."
Lucy looked at Evilyn, her expression locked tight in the void that not even Evilyn could see it.
"The contract?" Lucy questioned, as Evilyn sheathed her katana and closed her fans before returning them to their strap next to the katana.
"Fulfilled, all the blood that I could need you have already coated my key in. You only need to do it again when summoning me, as it is with all Hell beings." Evilyn told her, to which Lucy nodded in reply before returning the two Obsidian keys back to the chain around her neck.
"You may call me when you need me, but if you cannot for some reason than I will force myself past the gate. I only need a drop of your blood to do so." And with that, Evilyn disappeared in a silver flame, with Lucy left staring where she once stood.
Lucy sighed suddenly, rubbed her neck and began her trail back to the train station and Gray.
She could only hope that by then the paper cuts have healed and that her partner wouldn't notice the blood that now stained her leather armor.
I haven't been getting many comments from you guys within the most recent chapters, but that's alright. I can see you guys are reading it so that's enough for me.
Though I would like to know what's on your minds, and to see more OC keys XD
Well anyways, thanks to everyone who has supported this story there have been more updates than usual but also because I have a week-long break from school.
So yeah, next update will be in soon I have no doubt.
Sincerely,
Shadow