Emotionless

Chapter 50, To Catch a Thief

Hey guys, so I've been helping out DemonSpiritSoul with one of her stories and giving her some writing tips as a Beta. She's new to this, but she's got good spunk in her stories so check them out. I'm thinking of adding some writing tips at the bottom of some of the chapters to help you guys out. Better to know now than find out along the way, it's irritating I tell you.

And if anyone ever needs a beta for Fairy Tail, feel free to ask me. I won't neglect Emotionless as I beta stories, I could never do that to our favorite emotionless characters. Mainly Lucy, she would be irritated with me if she could feel it XD

One more thing, I got tired of the poll on my profile and took it down. I may put it in the author's note at the bottom of the next chapter, if you guys still wanna vote leave the story name in a comment or PM me, either works.

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail

Lucy's Pov..

Seeing the princess of the Fiore was at the bottom of my list of things I dread to do, no, more like loath. Yet, I end up in front of the giant castle doors with Gray (my new partner) about to return a necklace that was stolen by the very person I loathe and must act civilized which I just don't see myself doing.

Emotions or not, I still had the after taste of the undying flames of hatred towards her, and it wasn't going to die anytime soon.

Hopefully though Gray will cool me down, no pun intended, because I can literally feel the heat burning through my skin (well not really feel but I know its there. This whole emotionless concept still throws me off in explanation).

I can tell what I'm feeling even without actually feeling because of my body signals. I can tell I'm losing control to my anger with the sound of my thrumming heart against my ears, my blood coursing through my veins heatedly, and there was of course me trying to keep my eyes from narrowing.

My body betrays how I don't feel, and it's difficult to deal with it.

Fortunately, Gray did not notice the blood-stain on my stomach due to the fact that I had my cloak wrapped completely around my body.

He didn't question it, probably figured I was getting cold with some unknown chill that isn't in the air, but I could at least pretend there was because Gray couldn't tell - stripping in the Winter snow does that to someone.

Gray slept on the train here, looking as presentable as possible. Myself however, well I haven't had a good nights' rest since I was in the dragon's world and that was before there was any man that would annoy me or remind me of the war I've been.

Because even if you cannot feel, you will never forget the memories of war and of death. Never.

Not that it matters anymore, in this world there is no memory of the ghosts of the fallen heros of Fairy Tail. No ghosts at all, new dimension after all. But Fairy Tail wasn't the only one with the heros. The other guild members were all heros and I will never forget how they fought with their lives, despite losing, they did it for those they love and with good intent.

No matter what I've suffered through because of them, I just can't say I don't respect them - at least not as my equal.

I wonder sometimes, what has become of the other dimension. Fairy Tail's strongest members along with every legal guild's strongest members are all dead, with me missing but most likely presumed dead.

I know I will never know what has become of the world there, but I know it is filled with misery for the death of everyone that was sent out, even if the Leviathans were truly destroyed, defeated, and killed.

It's strange in a way, legal guilds aren't meant to kill and yet we were ordered to kill. Some nights when I actually sleep, I dream of the people I've killed, even Kira who was technically killed by the Dragon King, but I was responsible for it none the less.

Some people would call that being a hero, but is that all a hero is now? A killer?

Here I'm just the new girl with little mystery, but inside my soul has gone through things that would leave those insane from what I've seen, for what I've done.

After all, my soul has seen many things through my eyes. Things that some people have spent their whole lives searching for..

"Ready?" Gray's voice breaks me from my thoughts, and I nod. He walks up to the door, and slightly hesitates before knocking on the door three times, the sound seemingly echoing throughout Crocus.

It was about five minutes before someone opened the bloody doors, and it was a single guard who wore a helmet that covered all but his mouth.

"The King is not accepting visitors, leave." He told us, before practically slamming the doors in our faces.

I bit my tongue to keep myself from letting out a string of curses and see Gray turn to me in question. "Never liked these royals, not even allowing to even tell them our purpose for coming all the way out here.." He began, and paused when he caught me studying the building. Realization dawned on his eyes and he slowly began to back away from me as though I wouldn't catch him fleeing from my plans.

"Uh-uh." I say, and grab him by the scruff of his collar and force him back over to the doors, where he strips his top off and crosses his arms, seemingly glaring at the doors.

"We'll just have to force their attention on us." I tell him, and he spins on me with a fear-full expression that reminds me of when Erza would freak him and Natsu out.

"We would be sent to prison or worse!" He shouts at me, and I cover his mouth to shush him before removing the same hand and tapped my lips with them as a signal for silence.

"They won't if we return the necklace to the princess." I say back to him, and he seems to think on this.

"They could still throw us in jail, we mean nothing to them after all."

I sigh and rub my hand over my face in mock exhaustion.

"And how would that look for the rest of Fiore? Turning in two Fairy Tail mages that were returning a stolen necklace to the princess?" Lucy catching his look as he was about to argue began to walk around him, "Look, I'm going whether your coming or not. I hope you will though, we wouldn't be a very good team if we didn't stick together." I said, walking away.

I hear him sigh before his footsteps follow in my lead.

No words are exchanged, but I can sense his uneasiness.

I do agree with him though, I really hope this is worth the effort.

Because if they do end up arresting me, I'll be bringing this place in flames.

Though I really, really, really, would prefer that to not occur.

Normal Pov..

"Lucy, are you mad!" Gray whisper-shouted at Lucy, who was climbing up the flag next to the castle. "Probably!" Lucy whispered back as she gripped the horizontal rod of the flag pole before she began to swing forwards like she was on the jungle-bars.

"Lucy, don't!" Gray whisper-shouted so hard he felt his throat going sore.

Lucy did a flip backwards before letting go and flying forward towards the window, and just barely catching the ledge outside of the window.

"Relax, and hurry up already!" Lucy grumbled back, pulling herself up on the ledge.

"Hey, your not the one carrying a body!" Gray grinched back, before he began climbing up the wall using the bricks instead of the poll like Lucy had been up to.

By the time Gray was almost at the ledge, Lucy had already opened the window and was currently climbing inside it.

"Doesn't even bother helping.." Gray muttered to himself as he heaved himself up on the ledge and shoved Renzou's body into Lucy's arms before climbing in himself.

The moment his feet hit the floor, Renzou's body was flying at him forcing Gray to stumble back as he caught Renzou, his back lightly thumping against the wall.

"Keep it down!" Lucy whispered harshly, and received a glare from Gray in return but Lucy didn't appear to care because a second later she's half way down the hallway picking up gold and silver trinkets before placing them down on the next table to sniff some flowers and followed by tossing them behind her.

She finally stopped at the end of the hallway, looking at the fork a head of her and debating which way to go. She glanced back at Gray and held back a laugh with a snort. Gray was covered in multiple shades of flower petals, with the pink ones settled on his hair shaping a ring around his head that made him look like he was the flower king.

Gray responded with a blast of ice to Lucy's spine who stumbled forward from the impact and bumped into a table. Lucy and Gray both held their breaths as a vase began tip over but Lucy caught it just in time, leaving Gray to sigh.

Crash!

Lucy and Gray's heads snapped towards the sound, and realized that the table stretched down to the other side of the hallway, where a platter had fallen off the table.

"Oh shit."

"We're screwed."

At not a moment later did the guards burst from their rooms and the two mages realized they were in the guard barracks. Almost immediately the guards noticed them before shouting as loud as they could, "Thief! Get them!"

Lucy grabbed Gray and gave him a shove as a head start and a signal to start running and two began sprinting through the seemingly endless hallways before they came across a window. Lucy didn't hesitate to open the window and immediately leaped unto the other side, unto the roof.

Gray chucked Renzou's body with all his strength towards Lucy, who had taken a huge leap to the other building without even realizing it, and Gray wasn't sure he'd make it.

Lucy caught Renzou, but didn't wait to drop him emitting a groan of pain from the unconscious bandit leader before running up to the edge of the roof and motioning for Gray to jump.

"Lucy, just go!" Gray shouted, knowing there was no point in keeping quiet anymore.

"No, Damnit! I'm not leaving you behind!" Lucy shouted right back, kicking Kenzou sharply in the head to keep him down.

The sounds of the guards nearing put them both on their toes.

"Lucy-" Gray tried to tell her to leave but she didn't give him the chance.

"Just jump, come on Gray! Natsu would do it!" Lucy knew that was just the thing to say because not a second later gray was leaping off the ledge and nearing the other side with Lucy, but he wasn't going to make it.

Lucy dove forward and caught Gray from under his arm, her left hand gripping the edge of the roof as the dangled from the roof.

Without a word, Lucy strained her arms to throw Gray upwards, and unto the base of the roof. She remained there, trying to fight off gravity as she willed her arms to pull her up, but her hands were getting sweaty and she was losing her grip.

At least I won't feel it when I fall..

Gray noticed Lucy's predicament and repeated what she had previously done and dove to the ledge, but keeping himself on the roof as he grabbed her hand and tried to pull her up.

Problem was the guards had caught up with them, and one of them was climbing unto the window sill. Gray strained to pull Lucy up quicker, but even his cool hands were losing grip to Lucy's sweat ones.

The guard who had climbed out unto the window sill had pulled out a gun, and Lucy noticed as he slipped a dart into the weapon. Lucy knew that it was to knock them out, and Gray would get hit first that way he would drop her. If Lucy fell first though, then Gray wouldn't get hit, at least that was Lucy's theory.

"Gray.. you have to let go." Lucy told him calmly, causing Gray's eyes to widen in surprise and then fright.

"No!" He said, trying to pull her up, and she was nearly half-way up, but the guard was also already aiming at Gray's form.

Lucy found her feet on the wall, and steadied herself, before pushing her new burning red aura to Gray's hands.

"I'm sorry about this, Gray." Lucy told him, before forcing her aura to his hands singeing them with burns before she kicked herself off the building, with the force of the wall as her leverage and plummeted down countless feet with Gray calling her name as she fell.

She barely caught a glance at Gray dodging the dart aimed for his neck, and from there she slammed into the ground forcing her body to black out.

Gray stared as Lucy fell, and barely heard the sound of the gun to will his ice-shield out as his defense, shielding the dart from him, and immediately jumped out of the way, throwing Renzou over his back immediately after his shield went down and ran.

The guards wouldn't dare jump, and had split up. One group to chase after Gray and the other to find Lucy.

Gray couldn't do anything to stop them to get to Lucy though, so he did what they had planned to do and find the princess, return the necklace, and prove that they're not the thieves, only Renzou.

Problem was this time, Gray didn't know where she would be. However, since it's day she would most likely be in the main room, which is the largest building north from him.

Good thing Kenzou was completely unconscious, the extra kick delivered from Lucy ensured that. Now, he needed to get to the princess.. he only hoped Lucy was alive after such a fall.

After all, she was his partner now.

Lucy's Pov..

I awoke in a strange place. I was in a garden, beautiful vines, plants, and flowers surrounding me. I would love it if I could feel such a thing.

Then I remembered where this strange place was, and was up on my feet in a second , before my back disobeyed me and forced me to fall forward. I clenched my teeth and forced myself back up on my feet, bending my back as far back as I could until I heard a satisfying crack and stood straight again, my spine no longer disfunctioning.

However, my left leg felt numb and I had no idea what that meant. I put pressure on it, and it seemed fine, but I couldn't exactly feel the ground beneath that foot.

I look around as to where I am, and notice that I had fallen literally straight from a roof, but hit the roof to the right over there to have myself land here.

Well, at least I'm alive.

I tense at the sound of clinking armor, and just barely catch a glimpse of a group of guards running my way. In that glimpse though, they caught sight of me as well, and not a moment later they're chanting for me to stop, I'm under arrest, and blahblahblah.

I wasn't in the mood to run from them though, and I would be running in the opposite direction that I need to go. If my memory serves correct the princess would be in the main building, north from here.

Besides, these are castle guards not dragons.

And not even the dragons could catch me!

I sprint forward, ignoring the fuzzy feeling from my left leg and leaped at the guards with green fists flying in every direction, head-butts left to right, and leg-sweeping as many guards as I could. It wasn't long until all the guards were groaning in pain on the ground all around me, with myself as the victor.

Returning to a sprint, I don't stop as I'm faced with fences of buildings in my way. Gray is probably far ahead from me now, and has hopefully already made it to the castle. Now, I just got to get there now and pull him out of whatever situation he's dragged himself into.

Once I'm there, I kick down the castle doors and am met with a frozen room, with frost slowly melting off the furniture and ceiling. Following the trail of ice, I am met with countless unconscious guards until I finally find Gray brawling against what could be fifty guards, and the elite mages of Crocus that actually suck.

Gray seemed to realize this too, and was beating the crap out of them by the time I arrived.

"Hurry up!" I shout over to him, startling him as he froze ten of the guards with his ice to look over at me, though after a second I figured he was staring in disbelief.

"Quit gawking and finish them!" I growled, before lunging into the battle, my magic swirling around me like a dress as I trill and twist, knocking out anyone coming at me.

By the time the last body hit the floor, Gray and I were surrounded by fifty unconscious bodies. We were about to continue when a shrill but a very familiar voice rank through the air, one I would never forget in all my years.

"STOP IT!"

Hisui E. Fiore.

This chapter flew by pretty fast in my opinion, but it still turned out pretty good don't you think?

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Tomorrow will probably the last day of these super-fast updates if not today. I can't believe a week of no-school has flown by so quickly, and I wish it was already summer T_T

Shadows guide you, readers and friends.