Emotionless
Chapter 52,
A/N: Hey guys! So, I know I haven't updated in a while but I've been having to deal with exams for school unfortunately and haven't been on here. However, I was encouraged to get it up by this song my brother showed me and it's called C418 BETA minecraft which I do not own.
Also, I just walked almost 9 (8.8) miles today and can barely walk without appearing like a penguin, so you are fortunate to have me using the extra time to make the chapter longer than it was originally meant to be.
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail
Hisui's Pov..
Ever since I saw her and her shirtless partner defeat the royal guards I knew they were powerful mages. Mages that could fight through anything and still survive, but with that strength they must have paid for it somehow.
The girl, she was different from anyone I had ever met that approached me. Instead of kneeling to the royal family, she stood head-strong as though we were equals, or rather we were beneath her. It was a very bold thing to do, and it has put my father on edge.
She had only kneeled when her shirtless partner froze the ground beneath her, forcing her to slip an fall. It could have been funny, if not for the situation they had put themselves in.
They had broken into the Castle, such a thing was unheard of, and the strangest thing was they were not thieves but rather mages. They had forced their way into the main hall in order to return my necklace, despite the many royal guards they had to fight past, and with a body over their shoulders.
The bandit leader, Renzou I believe is now in the Crocus dungeon, serving his time for all the things he had stolen and all the places he had broken into. Simply put, he would be in prison for a long time.
The two mages who had brought him to us, along with my necklace were given pardon for their trespassing after declaring their reasons good, however the girl has gotten unto my father's bad side, and that has never been something easy to deal with.
Still, they had gone through the travel of finding the necklace, and bringing it here along with the thief himself. It was really our fault for having them trespass, the guards didn't let them through even though they were here to return the necklace.
It would be unjust to have them return to their homes without even a thank you, and I couldn't allow that. It wasn't about integrity or respect, not the money or the power, but the kindness they showed in returning the necklace and not even asking for payment.
I am un-allowed to leave Crocus by father's orders, but maybe I can still catch them before they leave.
The train they had boarded departed, and I was left walking back to the castle with a heavy heart. Guilt wormed its way into my heart for allowing the mages to go, they had the short end of the straw and I could've even thank them properly now.
It was when I was walking through the park that I had spotted her, the girl who had returned the necklace at the same time she had threatened to destroy it when we wouldn't hear her out. She was brave, and I couldn't see her as a fool, but there was something off about her that I could not place.
At first I thought she was asleep, but I soon found out she was definitely awake, irritated, and knew who I was even though most of the conversation she acted as though she had no idea. Apparently my voice is very recognizable.
She was angry, I could tell at first but as her body began to shake I knew she was angry, no, more like furious. I only caught once glance of the look in her eyes, and it was of pure, undying hatred.
And it was directed to me.
Never had I ever seen such a person hold so much hate, and never would I imagine I would be the victim of such ferocity. Victim, was that the right word? I have never seen her before, and yet the look she held to me showed she knew me very well, enough to hate me to the core of my soul which ached at the memory of her eyes.
What could I have possibly done to create such rage? Could it be something my family had done? I didn't know, but whatever it had been it was serious. It is serious.
Yet when I think about, and look past the anger in her eyes I can see the emptiness. She appeared to be just two years younger than me, and yet never had I seen someone so young be the keeper of such emotions.
What in the world could cause someone to be dead inside? Is my family not as royal as they claim to be? Have they done the unforgivable?
Yet something inside me, tells me I'm the one at fault and it has nothing to do with my family, not even the King - my father.
My heart hurts when I see her eyes in my memory, in that one second I had seen something I've never seen before. And now, I'm determined to uncover the truth that had caused such darkness in the girl.
And see if I am truly the one at fault here.
Normal Pov..
Nine hours later Lucy had finally arrived at Magnolia, however one would mistaken her to be actually emotionless with the expression she wore. It was as if she was a still life picture, a face that would never move and never feel. This was of course ironic when she really is emotionless and it is only now that she would be appearing such a way.
She trudged up the hill towards Fairy Tail, her face blank and eyes distant but yet also hollow, while her long dark green coat flapped against the wind and the collars obscuring her mouth as she sank into her coat while she walked. She appeared lost, but angered about something; or at least one would think that.
When she arrived at the front doors of her guild she pulled out a smaller brown sack filled with half of the jewels Hisui had given them, before for once, gently opening the doors and walking inside, her shadow frowning behind her.
Inside the guild, everyone looked up along with some new/old faces that weren't there when Lucy first arrived as the doors banged loudly upon her wake and were met with a glooming shadow in the door's wake. Gray looked up at the familiar form, but couldn't quite tell if it was his partner until the sun gleamed and revealed Lucy's blonde locks and brown eyes.
Even though she was revealed, her expression was so cold that some questioned if this was the same girl that first came and became Gray's partner, or at least job partner at once.
"Lucy?" Gray asked, standing up and taking two steps towards her before a brown heavy sack was thrown at him, sending him tumbling back slightly as he tried to catch it. "Huh?"
"It's our payment for the job, she paid me after your train left. Half and half." Lucy said casually, despite her void of emotion.
"Lucy?" Gray asked, after tucking the bag who knows where.
"Yea?" Lucy asked, as she headed for a table.
"Are you alright?" He asked her, concerned by her facial expression that was absent of all life before. This was the true face of the emotionless, and it was horrifying in a sense.
"I will be, I just need to think." Lucy said, plopping herself down unto one of the railings, before leaning her back against the wall and closing her eyes.
Not long after the doors banged open revealing a giant, only to be revealed as a red-haired women holding a humongous jeweled horn.
"Ah! The demon is back, run for your lives!" A certain pink-head screamed, causing Lucy to glance over at the boy - Natsu. Behind him were the casual speaking take-over siblings; Mirajane, Lisanna, and Elfman.
Lucy ignored all the commotion however and closed her eyes before focusing on her expression. She tried going for a smile but ended up with a devil's smirk it rivaled Mirajane's own demon grin. Sighing to herself, Lucy returned to her normal expression that was actually real and the very feeling her body was in.. even if she couldn't feel it herself.
"ERZA!" A random member shouts, and Lucy catches a glance at the red-head once more before a flashback gleamed in her eyes and she was suddenly yanked into the memory while the world around her blurred into the vision of the memory herself.
It was a very familiar but very dreadful memory..
The world was in ruin and Lucy had been running for her life, from the dragons and left scavenging for food from the ruined cities and villages. A week after the last village she had come across she was met with the furious scream of her name by an old comrade.
Turning around she was met with the sight of a women with long scarlet hair, steel armor covered in soot, and two steel blades in the women's hands.
Lucy felt her blood run cold as she stared at the women. Memories of Fairy Tail hit her hard, and the reminder of the scarlet-haired mage that she once saw as a dear sister that turned her back on her. Her eyes hardened as she grounded out the women's name.
"Erza."
The scarlet-haired warrior revealed to be Erza glared deadly at Lucy. Raising her swords high she screamed at Lucy. "Why did you betray us?! I thought we were family!"
Lucy clenched her fists, her eyes flaring underneath her hood's shadow.
"Family. FAMILY! You betrayed me, Fairy Tail betrayed me, everyone betrayed me for something I had been forced to do!" She screamed back at Erza before grounding out, "Even my spirits betrayed me.."
But Erza continued as though she hadn't heard Lucy. "Everyone is dead because of you. Innocent children, civilians, our friends, comrades, families, our master, EVERYONE IS DEAD BECAUSE OF YOU! It's your fault they're all dead!"
Erza's voice pulled Lucy from the memory just long enough to hear her ask if the master was present, and was told that he wasn't.
"I see.." Erza trailed before one of the guild members began to ask her about the horn and once again she was yanked into the memory again.
"Lucy." She says in a scolding tone, like a mother to a child who did something wrong.
"Erza, leave it alone." Lucy told her, noticing then that the guild had their attention on them.
"You can't just ignore the consequences of stealing an S-class mission from the guild." She told Lucy, her frown turning into a thin line of disappointment. Seems that's all she's seen in Lucy those days, and it has gone to the peak of Lucy's nerves.
"And I haven't, I've already spoken to Master Makarov about it." She told her, firmly, Lucy's tone of saying leave it alone. Though knowing Erza, she wouldn't do so.
"And he said?" She asked her, well, more like demanded. Lucy sneered at her in return, "None of your business. Oh, and by the way if you're going to be telling me off on consequences you may want to think about the actions you've been taking the last year."
She lifts an eyebrow in confusion. "In what way, Lucy?" She asked Lucy this time.
Lucy closed her eyes in annoyance before opening them to glare at Erza. "Of course, you're too self-absorbed to even question your actions! You know, like I said last time you don't deserve to be called Titania!"
Erza put the horn down and put her hands on her hips as her eyes narrowed on the guild members.
"I heard you've been causing trouble again. Even if Master forgives you, I won't." Erza told them sternly, and drew a cruel but also amused smirk from Lucy.
"Awe bitch, just take a drink already." Mirajane taunted Erza while smirking, swinging a bottle of vodka in her grasp. Lucy opened her eyes and looked up at the two clashed heads of Mirajane and Erza, she figured this was how things used to be before Lisanna's death. Since Lisanna wasn't killed, their attitude and rivalry is still exactly the same.
"I won't because I'm not like you, destined to drown in alcohol before even Cana!" Erza barked back, fists going forward only to be clashed by Mirajane's own. The guild sweat-dropped at the sight but still didn't move, frozen in fear by the two's fight.
Lucy sighed but looked up when Gray pulled himself up next to Lucy. "Better?" He asked her, referring to her earlier mood, or rather lack of mood.
Lucy gave him a tired smile, "Yea, It's just been a long day."
Gray nodded accepting her answer. "I know what you mean, especially since you fell from the castle tower.. I'm sorry about that too, you know?" He told her, his voice of apology.
Lucy wave her hand to the side in dismissal. "Hey man, don't worry about it okay? I forced you to let go of me, so it's not on you."
Gray gave her a nod and the two went into a calm silence as they stared at the brawl before them.
"Red-neck!"
"Demon spawn!"
Lucy let out a chuckle and nudged Gray's shoulder who turned to her with a raised eyebrow. "Reminds me of you and Natsu."
He muttered something under his breath before nudging her back enough to cause her to fall and flop unceremoniously unto the ground. She sent him a glare who looked back at her with mock innocence, before pretending to dust of his jacket (which by some miracle was still there) before sending her a devil's smile.
"Hmp!" Lucy tackled Gray off the railing, and regained her placement on the railing with her eyes somehow smirking at him while her actual lips remained impassive.
"Cheesecake freak!"
"Don't you dare insult my cake, and it's strawberry cheesecake, granny hair!"
Gray leaned his back against the railing, remaining in a stand as he watched the two. "So the red-head is Erza and the white-head is Mirajane, they've been rivals for a while. Both S-class and have been battling for the title as the strongest mage. Erza is known as Titania while Mirajane is well, The Demon. As I told you, Mirajane uses take-over, demon take-over to be specific. Erza is-"
"I know, she's been rumored in the town bars often." Lucy interrupted, bangs shadowing her eyes from view.
"She upset you, somehow?" Gray asked curious, but also somehow defensive.
Lucy revealed her eyes masked with confusion. "No, why?"
Gray shook his head and said, "Nothing, it's just you sounded a bit annoyed."
"Bad day, that's all."
"Hn."
"Knight's Damsel!"
"Gothic Punk!"
Lucy groaned lightly and blew Gray's hair slightly, who twitched by the movement. "Dude."
"What?" Lucy asked, before licking her finger and poking into Gray's ear who squawked and leapt away from her with a "Gah!"
Lucy collapsed backwards off the railing and let out a howl of laughter, while Gray stared back at her growling in the back of his throat.
"Steel-faced freak!"
"Satan's slut!"
A bang was sounded loudly as Mirajane transformed her right hand into a demon's claw and colliding into the wooden floor sending splinters into the air.
A cling was heard as Erza's sword clashed into Mirajane's own.
"Now they're getting exciting!" Natsu whooped, only to receiving a light slap to the head by Lisanna.
Another sword appeared in Erza's free hand while Mirajane's feet and other arm transformed to demon-form.
Erza let out a battle cry while Mirajane let out a roar as the two lunged forward, the guild members holding their breaths as the two were only seconds from colliding into a full blown battle only to have their excitement crushed when their newest member stepped in and caught the two in midair, her green aura shaped into transparent arms that grasped the two hot-heads by the waist before moving forward to collide their heads forward creating a resounding "OW!" From the duo.
"Sorry, I really wanted to see you guys go at it, I really did.. but I do believe you were in the middle of saying something.." Lucy trailed, clearly referring to the re-quip mage.
"Scarlet." Mirajane provided.
"Erza." Erza finished with grounded teeth.
A silence passed with the three mages staring down on one another, and the rest of the guild appearing as though they were about to piss themselves until Lucy broke it with a long, "Soooooo?"
"Huh?"
"What?"
Were the two very intelligent responses *cough* sarcasm *cough* from the two head-aching girls.
"You were saying.." Lucy tried again, trying to get Erza to regain the conversation she was trying before.
Erza stared at Lucy blankly before a light bulb lit up above her head as she realized what she was referring to, before staring at Lucy's aura hand and cleared her throat.
"Cat in your throat?" Lucy smirked.
"It's cat got your tongue.." Warren unwisely added.
"DO YOU WANT THIS CAT ON YOUR TONGUE?!" Lucy shouted at the guy, a new green hand pointing at Mirajane. Warren replied with a girl-ish scream and hid beneath the table.
"Not. A. Cat." Mirajane growled, her eyes narrowing in looking very much like a feline.
"Sorry, you say something?" Lucy taunted The Demon.
"-Down." Lucy turned an eye on Erza who was staring at Lucy equally as much.
"Put. Me. Down." She demanded, trying to wriggle out of Lucy's aura's grip.
"Down?"
"Yes."
"Now?" Lucy asked, unnoticeably raising her aura arms higher into the air.
"Yes!"
"Really?"
"Yes!"
"Are you sure?" Lucy asked again, loosening her hold just slightly.
"MAVIS YES!" The two screamed at Lucy, and were suddenly dropped and landed on the ground with a loud thud and a resounding "Ow!"
"Bitch.." Mirajane muttered as she picked herself up and headed to her siblings, a way of announcing she wouldn't fight Erza, but the gleam I her eye spared no mercy for Lucy.
"..." Erza sat up, before lifting herself to a stand before crossing her arms and clearing her throat to the cowarding guild members.
"As I was saying.." Erza began, only to have the entire guild besides Mirajane and Lucy face-plant to the ground.
She turned to Gray and Natsu who suddenly had their arms around one another, after previously head to head against one another.
"I have a favor to ask the two of you, actually. I heard something troubling at work, and though I would usually consult to master about this, it's to urgent to wait so.. I need your help. You'll come with me right?"
"Eh!"
"Huh?!"
"I'll take that as a yes." Erza said, before turning to Lisanna. "You should come to, after all you can keep Natsu in line." Lisanna nodded rapidly not wanting to face Erza's wrath.
"Well, I think that's all we'll need for this, then." Erza finished, but had not expected her rival to butt in.
"Hell no! I am not leaving my little sister in your care! I'm going with you." Mirajane shouted, stomping next to her sweat-dropping sister.
"Ah!" The guild shouted in shock.
"Now, is that everyone?" Erza said, worn out by the event.
".. No, you're forgetting me." Lucy spoke up, back to standing in front of Erza. It seemed that Erza was about to have another rival to be the strongest women in Fairy Tail.
"And you are?" Erza asked her politely, not forgetting that Lucy had her up in the air by a green arm just mere minutes ago.
"Lucy, Gray's partner. If he's going, then I'm going with him."
Erza turned to a shirtless Gray with a raised eyebrow. "You finally got yourself a partner then." Erza sighed but nodded. "Alright, you can come. No one else though, I do believe that six is enough to take care of the job."
Lucy smirked at Erza before tipping her head down slightly in acknowledgement, before asking -
"So, when do we leave?"
And that is it for this chapter. It was getting pretty long and this computer isn't very good with saving so I didn't want to risk writing/typing anymore in here.
Won't you think the future will be pretty interesting in this timeline? Feel free to comment, favorite, or follow.
Shadows guide you, friends.
Sincerely,
The Reaping Wolf