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Chapter 54, Melody of Death
A/N: Heya guys, sorry I haven't updated in a bit. I've been occupied by many things, end of the semester reasons I'm sure. Anyways I've been thinking up what other dimensions for this story I could use and thought of a particular theme that has brought a question that I would like to ask you guys.
What animals would the fairy tail characters be?
They don't necessarily have to be animals.. reptiles, insects, and others like that works too. Nothing mythical or out of a fantasy book however.
Those that would like to tell me their opinions can leave it in a review or PM me.. if you still remember after (hopefully) being mind-blown by this story and chapter.
Always accepting OCs!
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail
Normal Pov..
The train ride continued, slowly and agonizing for the Fairy Tail mages. Erza had gone through the same conversation with Lullaby as last time around, and the time before that, Lucy recalled to herself.
She couldn't stop thinking that this time, things would be different. After all it was this mission that united team Natsu together, and it was their team that could stand against practically any enemy.
If Dark Rogue knew this.. then Lucy couldn't risk relaxing any time soon.
When night dawned everyone but Mirajane and Lucy were asleep. Erza, because she was 99% positive no one would dare attack her in her sleep unless they have a death wish. Lisanna was asleep with Natsu sleeping (unconscious) on her shoulder while Gray fell asleep to save his energy.
Mirajane refused to sleep though, she had to ensure her sister's safety no matter what, and if she were to sleep it would be after Lucy. However, it seemed Lucy was as awake as though she just woke up.
Ah, if only she knew Lucy cannot be tired.. sure, her body can. However, her body has surpassed regular limitations such as sleep. Feh, if she slept during Leviathan Skull, Kira would sure have had her head rather than her heart. Not only that, but when your being hunted by dragons for years over years, sleep is one of the most craziest things to need. If you slept, it was when you either lost too much blood or your body could no longer walk any longer. Whether it was because you were starving, dehydrated, or just flat out exhausted that was all.
And when you awoke, two hours tops, it was back on the road again. Metaphorically speaking on the road part.
Lucy recalled back to the time when her first trip to Eisenwald she had been so terrified of them, and yet now, she sees them as nothing more than a fly to be swatted.
She sighed, and leveled her gaze with Mirajane's. Let's just say they remained that way until they arrived in the town, by morning..
Lucy's Pov..
The train whistled as we arrived at the station. Erza was the first to leave since she had no baggage. She barely said two words as she stepped out of the room and to the station, which was "Let's go."
Gray gave me a fist bump as he walked out of the room while I in the midst of grabbing my baggage, surely still sleepy from his three-hour nap.
Here's where it got different though.
Mirajane and Lisanna must be the triggers of a different outcome in this dimension timeline. I say this because Mirajane woke Lisanna up who got Natsu awake.
I was left staring at their three figures as they got off the train, suddenly feeling like I'm forgetting a key to a door here. I lean against the railing with my baggage over my shoulder, eyes staring into a wooden panel as I try to recall what the hell I'm forgetting.
After all, it's been a long time since I was here. I was sixteen after all, back then. Now, I'm in my twenties. Or at least I am in the years I've lived through. To everyone else, I appear as the same sixteen year-old I once had been. Except the weak and gentile appearance.
I distinctly here the train whistle again, and a man's yell but I didn't pay attention to it.. when I realized I probably should have.
I quickly spin my head in the direction of the window, seeing trees and grasslands passing by.
Crud..
I pinch the bridge of my nose, internally calling myself an idiot for not getting off the train.
"Fairy Tail, right?" I look up to the owner of the voice and was suddenly hit with a whiplash in memories. This is when Natsu was supposed to remain on the train and would meet this exact same guy with the Lullaby.
Crud again, but I have a hunch this will get interesting. Even though I wasn't present when Natsu met this guy the first time, I can pretty much figure out he caught the train on fire trying to get to this guy, Kageyama I think.
Just got to play it smooth from here, because I do not want to pay for the cost of an entire freakin train!
"What's it to you?" I reply, calmly but guarded as the guy leans against the other set of doors. Looking at me with a teasing smile and amusing but dangerous eyes. Those eyes that belong to anyone that makes trouble and believes themselves strong.
Well kiddo, you don't happen to be as strong as a dragon now are you?
Didn't think so.
"Speaking of Fairy Tail, Lisanna is pretty famous, isn't she?"
Lisanna? Famous? Huh..
Kageyama continues, not waiting for comment. "She's in magazines sometimes, and she's beautiful."
I wonder if the Mira I know, took on the modeling and kind role in memory of her sister.. I don't actually doubt it.
"I heard of a new mage too, she's gotten a name for herself pretty quickly even though she's just joined. Or so I hear. In fact, she's beautiful too. And you know what I think? I think this girl is standing right in front of me. I think this girl is you-"
His sentence was cut short when my heel slammed into his cheek, sending him sprawling back into the wall of the outside room, before the wood broke and he landed on his back.
Oops, he is weaker than I expected. Definitely not a dragon.
"Sorry about that, but I was just getting real tired of your bullshit. I know who you are, Kageyama." I told him, placing my foot back on the ground.
Kageyama picked himself up, wiping the blood from his mouth where I might have broken some teeth..
"Heh, and I had a whole speech I was gonna tell ya, bitch. But you know what, I say why not we skip talk and get straight to the battle.. with MAGIC!" Not a moment after he shouted, a shadow fist launched from the floor in front of myself, aiming for her face only to be caught by a glowing transparent hand.
"Wha-what the hell kind of magic is that?!" Kageyama demanded, creating more shadow fists from the shadows of the train, only to be caught by more green hands that seemed to appear from my own arms. Whether it was the forearm, shoulder, or elbow the green hands formed and launched from my arms, leaving only my hands free from the magical arms.
I smirked, and took a single step toward him before speaking. "Magic of the lost souls."
Kageyama's eyes widened in fear as I pushed the red aura into visibility. I imagined it rolled off of me in waves of threat and the scent of blood. Imagined only, of course though.
In a desperate attempt I can only assume, he launched an obvious attack forward only to be met with my heel to his abdomen, sending him flying down the corrider between the seats.
A sack caught my eye then, laying harmlessly in front of where Kageyama fell. Harmless I thought until I noticed the skull on the wooden stick that poked out from the sack.
Lullaby.
"Shit, you saw it." Kageyama said, back on his feet while his hands quickly snatched the sack into his grasp.
"There's no point in running away." I told him, my voice a void of emotion while my ghost arms crushed his shadow ones, hovering dangerously in front of me as a dare to go against me.
"Fuck you, I'm outta here!" He shouted, clutching the sack with Lullaby in it within his grasp.
"And how do you expect to get past me?" I ask bluntly, knowing there is no way he could get past me and escape. I should just take the Lullaby from his grasp now, but seeing him sweat bullets just makes me want this moment to last as I relish in his fear.
"I'm a dark mage! You're messing with Eisenwald now, bitch! Don't think you can get away with it!" He shouted, pointing his middle finger at me, rather than his pointer.
I could only smirk cruelly at him, which only seemed to make him grow even further nervous. He's the fly in this game, and I'm the dragon raider. There's an enormous difference in power between us both.
"And you've just messed with me. Not Fairy Tail, but me. Lucy of the Lost Souls, survivor of your worst nightmare's living hell."
"Never heard of you." Kageyama returns, face smug and full of mockery towards me.
I merely smirk back.
"Then you'll be the first to spread my name in fear and respect. If not here, then when your dead."
I get into an attack position, pushing the red energy into my fists, and my throat, my 'heart', until it's flowing through my veins into my entire body.
And then, I lunge at him with fists ready.. only to find myself freefalling out of the window, glass flying in front of my vision and the wind colliding into me.
"Gotcha!" Gray's voice meets my ears, before I feel myself grabbed by my left arm and suddenly pulled down, only to land harshly to the roof of vehicle.
"Lucy!" Gray shakes me, receiving a batting hand from me.
Ow, I think to myself, even though not actually feeling pain.
"Why did you fly out of a train!" Natsu shouts, baffled by the sight I guess.
"It wasn't by choice, I'll tell you that much." I grumble back, getting to my feet but still keeping a steady balance.
"That was a funny sight, if only Gray didn't catch you and instead let you face-plant into the ground. Ha! That would've made my day." Mirajane's voice cuts through the wind, a mean smirk directed toward me only to receive my middle finger as a result.
"Tell you what M.J. next time we're on a train together, I'll personally escort you out the window of a moving train." I retort back, seeing her eyes narrow and could imagine her lunging for me in the next few seconds.
Lisanna didn't allow it to go that far, and put her hand on Mirajane's shoulder. Her reaction was a huff and looking in the other direction that I wasn't in. I roll my eyes before looking out at the speeding train.
And I was so close to getting him too..
Expectantly the vehicle comes to a sudden slam and Gray and I end up flying to the side of the vehicle, our hands the only thing keeping us from falling off by gripping tightly to the roof of the decorative car.
Once the car is officially to a halt, Gray and I let go, our feet landing swiftly to the ground smoothly.
"That was awesome!" Natsu shouts, whooping with his fist in the air.
"Are you alright Lucy? That didn't look very good." Lisanna asked, stepping our from the "carriage". Mirajane right behind her, and glowering straight at me, behind Lisanna's shoulder.
Childish, gothic, devilish punk.
Natsu immediately went to Lisanna's side, quietly reminding me of a lapdog.. or maybe one of those weird purse lemurs.
"I'm glad your safe, though next time get off the train with the rest of us to save us the trouble." Erza's voice cuts in, walking in front of Gray and I. Though her words were directed towards me.
I shrug not caring, before saying, "Hey, I saved you all the trouble by staying on and running into Kageyama." Oh wait, they don't know who Kageyama is.. right.
"Was it.. Eisenwald?" Gray asked, next to me.
I nod to him. "Yeah, he said it himself too."
Erza nodded, before waving back to the vehicle. "They're the ones we're after, and if he's on that train than we need to follow it."
Once we were all loaded back in the freaky vehicle, with Erza and myself at the wheel, Gray and Lisanna on the roof while Mirajane and Natsu were inside, Erza shoved her magic into the thing and we went of in acceleration.
"So since you ran into him and said his name was Kageyama, what did he look like? Did he seem like much of a threat?" Erza asked me, eyes on the train ahead of us.
"He's not a threat, or at least he didn't fight like one. However he did have the skull shaped flute with him. Is that Lullaby?" I ask her, already knowing the answer.
Her eyes widen and she nods rapidly. "Yes, that's Lullaby. Although I don't know much about it.. do you?" She asks me, giving me a side-glance.
I nod, though I don't think she noticed.
"Yeah, Lullaby is a three-eyed skull flute. Lullaby, sleep, death.. It represents as the magic of death. Known for it's cursed song."
"Cursed song?" Mirajane asks, from the roof. Obviously the entire group was hearing out conversation, ok.
"Lullaby is an instrument created from the black arts, by Zeref himself. The cursed song means the murderer of all, a.k.a. anyone who hears the voice of Lullaby.. dies."
I can guess that everyone's eyes widened at this.
"Yes. Mass-Curse Murderer Magic, Lullaby. The instrument that puts a death curse on anyone that hears its melody!"
Et Fini.
I honestly wanted to continue and make it longer, but I really wanted to get an update out today and my time has run out.
So yeah, just reminder about the question in the top Author's Note for those that want to share their opinions and all that.
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- Queen