Emotionless
Chapter 60, Something Abnormal
A/N: So, I've been meaning to get back into anime/manga again, though preferably anime. I've watched a lot but it was a pretty long time ago, so if anyone has some recommendations that aren't filled to the top with romance it would be very much appreciated. Also, if you guys know some good horror or adventurous or supernatural animes that would be awesome!
Oh, and one more thing. I. Need. Staff. for my community, so if anyone here likes Emotionless than you'll probably be interested in my community's theme and so I say DO NOT HESITATE TO JOIN! again I repeat DO NOT, ABSOLUTELY DO NOT HESITATE TO JOIN!
Ooh, that sounded pretty desperate right there. Really, I'm just agitated though, can't find the time to put in a good story for my theme. If you have a story you think should be there, again, don't hesitate to ask me to put it in there.
If you want to join, PM me, from what I know that's the only way. Being in a community is pretty fun too, for me anyways, since you get to put an already likeable into a community where it will be liked some more. Stuff like that, and so it doesn't get lost in the main stream. It also looks good when being on a staff, shows your not treating everything like a drag as Shikamaru and I do.
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail
Normal Pov...
The land was empty like a desert usually is, well, mostly empty anyways. A lone magic mobile drove along the train tracks rather slowly, despite the amount of magic being pumped into it by Mirajane and Gray, the former currently driver after Gray.
Lisanna who had been looking out the ledge of the vehicle suddenly said, "This wasn't the magical four-wheeled vehicle that we rented, was it?"
"I take my hat off to Eisenwald for their precautions, they made sure our vehicle was destroyed." Gray replied, his arms crossed as he stared blankly at the small mountains formed throughout the desert.
"What are you talking about ice princess? You're not wearing a hat." Natsu said, ignoring his motion-sickness long enough to mention that before his head rolled back it ill.
"Oh, Natsu." Lisanna sighed, looking at his sick form.
When Gray made the motion to bite back a nasty remark, Erza narrowed her eyes at him for interrupting her focus in rebuilding her magic. Gray slumped back, knowing an angry Erza is a nasty and mostly violent Erza.
Meanwhile Mirajane sat up at the front, her magic seeping into the vehicle. She needed more speed! Yet this thing lacked it, and it was something that she did not like, no , more like loathed.
"You better defeat this guy, Lucy. The Guild Masters lives rest on your shoulders, and I'll kick you into Hell if you don't." Mirajane angrily muttered under her breath, before pumping more of her magic into the vehicle causing it to go only a mile faster than before.
Lucy raised a hand up, beckoning Erigor forward so they may begin battle.
"Come on, badass! I'll crush you along with that damn flute, or even better.. put you permanently to sleep." Lucy taunted him, a red aura blade appearing in her hand followed by another in her other.
Erigor rotated his scythe quickly before wielding it forward throwing it toward Lucy with blurring speed thanks to the wind. Fortunately for Lucy, she had battled against scythe wielders before and also had her soulless eyes still activated, so this attack was easily countered as Lucy swiftly swept under it before taking both blades and catching it by the curve holding it in the air for a splint second with struggle before throwing it right back at Erigor with great strength.
Erigor barely had time to widen his eyes at the sight, realizing this fly of an opponent would be more bothersome and harder to swat than most. Quickly and skillfully his hands wrapped around his scythe's handle, swinging it around him once more, before slicing it downwards once more creating a blade of wind hurtling towards Lucy.
Lucy scowled before leaping over the blade of wind, barely sparing a glance as it barreled into the rock behind her, splitting it open.
He was a ranged opponent, she realized. Meaning she would be more in advantage if she were in close combat with him.
Running forward in a sprint she leapt up, raising her aura blades preparing to strike, only for Erigor to raise his hands with a cheeky smirk on his lips. "Don't get too carried away, fly... Storm Bringer!" He shouted, as a hurricane of wind flew spiraling towards Lucy who had no way of avoiding it in time, and was enveloped by the wind, a thousand times more it sliced her skin until it deemed her body cut enough to be thrown out, dumping her down.
Lucy landed with a thump on the rails, before slowly coming to a stand, and Erigor stared at her with amazed confusion as to why Lucy's eyes did not betray even a hint of pain, nor did her body. It was as though she was a machine behind the flesh, her body has the signs of an attack, but her emotions betray none.
"Everything you do doesn't make sense... is this the power of a Fairy Tail mage?" Erigor asked the last part internally, before lifting off into the air by his wind magic.
Lucy merely stared up at him before smirking, her eyes taking on the same emotionless stare, but her expression practically screamed run!
"Heh, I underestimated your abilities a bit. Let's fight seriously now." Erigor told her, before crossing his arms vertically as his magic built up in his arms.
"The lost souls will take you on." Lucy replied back, forming her black surf beneath her feat which went unnoticed by Erigor who was focusing on his spell. Of he really expected her to just stand there waiting for his powerful attack, he would find himself corrected.
"Storm Mail." Erigor was then engulfed by the wind, becoming a shadow inside the wind itself, of itself even.
Lucy would have been surprised, expecting another spell like the storm bringer, not an ability enhancing spell. No matter, dragons were the fastest creatures of the land, and if Lucy could run and fight from them, she damn well will be able to beat Erigor whose speed was but a fly compared to dragons.
Oh, the irony.
Without further words, the two rushed at each other, and as Lucy's sword rushed forward to break through Erigor's wind protection and into his torso, it was destroyed into wisps before rushing back inside Lucy, taking her black surf with them.
Erigor smirked, now holding Lucy's wrist in his grip from her failed attack. "You see my Storm Mail turns your magic powered attacks inside out, essentially making any attack useless against me now. It's useless now, you've lost." He told her.
He was surprised however when Lucy smiled at him, a smile that said that he was wrong, but for the wrong reasons he would never see until it was too late.
"I had underestimated you as well, Erigor." Seeing his victory gleam in his eyes, Lucy continued with a mocking tone. "I had also underestimated myself however and realized that I do not need magic to defeat you. I only need this!" With that, she wrapped her hand held by his wrist around his own before jumping up, throwing out her left leg curing from the bottom left to the right until it slammed into his face, causing him to fall back and try to let go of her grip, but was instead thrown over her shoulder and was then hit again by her heel into his stomach.
"Who knew the 'great' Erigor could be beaten so easily by hand to hand combat. You should have realized before, magic doesn't win everything." She told him, approaching him again as he reactivated his storm mail that had been deactivated when she surprised him with her foot in his face.
"You. Will. Die!" He screamed, before his storm mail rose in speed, sending spirals of wind toward Lucy and in every direction away from him. A red aura hand shot out and gripped ahold of one of the rails of the bride to hold Lucy down as the wind blew so hard her feet rose into the air.
As the winds grew faster another red aura arm shot out of Lucy and gripped ahold of a beam of the tracks, but when the bridge began to break and shake from the intensity of the wind Lucy knew she had to act fast.
Focusing on her magic, she narrowed her eyes in controlling the intensity as it build up inside her lungs before she shot forward with the held of her aura arms before roaring a spiraling of the crimson red aura, which completely ignored the wind before colliding directly into Erigor who let out a scream of agony as the aura seemed to melt the skin off his arms which took the main blow while his chest turned an angry bright red.
His Storm Mail had fallen, and then his body followed soon collapsed on the shaky remains of the bridge, his chest rising and falling heavily as he nearly whimpered in pain.
As Lucy walked up to him, he raised his head and asked, "What the hell are you?" Spitting out blood he tried to sit up, only to fall back over completely exposing the side of his jaw that had become bone from where the magic had hit him.
When the blond mage came to a stop, she raised a hand palm down slightly before curling it into a fist. "I already told you... I'm your worse nightmare." She said calmly, before bringing her fist down, snapping his head to the side officially knocking the dark mage out.
She sighed, stepping back, and then finally really looked at the damage she had done using the untrained magic given to her by the Dragon King. It was as though Erigor's skin was literally eaten away by the power he had given her, a dragon's power.
Well, no wonder the humans wanted a dragon's power, they were already so defenseless against it... this though was a small harnessed power of the Dragon King 4000 years ago, surely it surpassed the power of normal dragons... the one's who trained humans in their own magic.
Well shit, she had some pretty deadly power now, and wasn't quite sure what to think of it.
"I'm sure the magic council will be wondering how it happened when they come to bring him to prison... Damnit Lucy, and you said you didn't need your magic too." Lucy trailed talking to herself, well, practically more like scolding herself.
Erigor's storm mail was meant to turn the magic against itself, destroying its form and external power. It probably could only overpower so much... power, but how much? Just how powerful was a minor attack like that, which was untrained and barely controlled with layers of power of magic, which had eaten away Erigor's flesh and created so much pain he couldn't even stand?
The main question on Lucy's mind though, was how the hell she would control it? She was no dragon slayer, she wasn't when the war happened in her original dimension and she certainly wasn't one considering she has no clue as to how to harness a dragon's power. The size and built of a dragon is what gives them their ability to hold and use their magic on a large scale, the power comes from experience... experience that few dragons passed down unto humans, but each element works a certain way and has a specific method of training so she couldn't go to another dragon slayer for training. The Dragon King was dead now, and hadn't trained her 4000 years ago, so basically, Lucy was on her own with this.
And she just didn't have the time or knowledge to deal with this, after all one kind of needs the know-how in order to train, and train the skill they want at that.
This wasn't a skill though, this was magic, a dragon's magic.
Groaning in irritation, Lucy slapped a hand to her face simply trying to think. Even if she couldn't feel her irritation she certainly knew the headache when it came, making her head feel clogged up from the inside.
She then remembered something, Lullaby.
Walking over to Erigor, she saw the flute, resting seemingly innocent against the train tracks. Seemingly.
Kneeling down, Lucy picked up Lullaby and held it in her left hand. "I should destroy you now, knowing what you are and what you can do, and who created you and all that, yet, somehow I feel like this will screw up the timeline if I do... so, stop looking at me like that, and let's wait for the others to arrive. I'm not quite sure what-" Lucy felt something lurch deep inside of her, causing her to drop Lullaby as she fell to the ground, her hands finding their way to her chest where she felt... was it, pain?
"What the F-" She froze suddenly, her eyes rolling into the back of her head before she slumped backwards unconscious.
In front of her, the Lullaby blacked as the dark magic inside of it was summoned. Slowly the dark magic thickened until it rose out of the skull carved flute and became an orb.
Deep inside of Lucy, inside her chest rest her black heart made from her soulless magic itself. It pulsed in beat while slowly some dark wisps took a short leave from their home in the black heart and rose up out of her body before rushing towards the black orb and seemed to be absorbed into it. The orb pulsed once, in sink with the black heart before slowly moving towards Lucy until it was right above her chest where her black heart lay beneath.
The black orb pulsed again with the heart before slowly lowering down before it was absorbed quickly into the black heart.
The heart stopped in beat for a moment, as though assessing its new partner of black a.k.a dark magic before it returned to its duty as the heart and started a cadence again.
It was by that first beat that Lucy shot up with a gasp, blood splattering the ground while she rolled unto her side taking deep breathes from whatever the hell just occurred with her.
"Why do I keep feeling like I died?" She asked herself rhetorically, imagining her shadow smiling in her mind.
She let out another cough of blood, before she rose to her hands in a knee-push-up stance before opening her eyes to look, really look down at her blood.
Well, she thought it was her blood until she saw the color.
She slowly moved her left hand down, keeping her body steady from the imbalance movement before dipping it into the liquid and brought it up close to make sure she was seeing what she thought she was seeing.
Black blood.
"My blood is black, great." And with those words, she promptly passed out again, her face landing in the small puddle of her abnormal blood. But then again, knowing herself, everything about her was abnormal. Her magic, age, eyes, past, heart, and now her blood.
She really should have expected another thing to go abnormal, after all, it always happened to Lucy.
Distantly she thought her name was being called, but couldn't find it in herself to reach out of the darkness to see if it wasn't just her imagination. Instead though, she sunk further into the depths of the black sea inside her mind, the world vanishing once more.
When Mirajane first saw the shaky and unstable looking bridge ahead she originally passed it up as a historical thing, thinking it had suffered to that state after years of existence. After all, it was right outside Clover Town, one of the founding towns of Fiore.
However, when she saw her fallen comrade along with a fallen Erigor she knew this is where Lucy battled Erigor, and seemed to have defeated Erigor before falling herself.
"Lucy!" Mirajane was not the only person who realized this either, for Gray shouted in worry of his fallen partner and leapt off the vehicle before it had completely come to a stop before sprinting over to the blonde.
More calls of the blonde's name sounded behind Gray as he ran to Lucy, his partner. Once he reached her, he kneeled down and took in her state looking for injuries but finding none besides tiny cuts across her skin, which seemed to be healing quickly.
"How is she?" A hard-toned voice asked behind him, and Gray looked up seeing Erza walking across the weak bridge to where Erigor lay. The others had caught up with them, Mirajane staring out at the bridge, while Lisanna and Natsu flanked to his right.
"I don't know, she doesn't have any visible injuries besides these tiny cuts." Gray said, his tone clearly confused.
"There's no way those cuts could knock someone out." Lisanna said to the side, her eyes in thought on what had occurred.
"Unless she's afraid of the sight of blood." Mirajane sneered from the side, eyes still on the bridge.
"Nii-san! Why would she chose to face Erigor if she was, hell, why even join Fairy Tail if she was?" Lisanna bit back, eyes narrowed on her sister taking this situation so... strange.
"Ch." Was all that came out of the older Strauss after that.
"No way! Erigor's defeated though isn't he? So at least she won!" Natsu cheered, trying to lift to mood.
"Mavis." At the sound of Erza's gasp through the founding master's name they all turned to where Erza stood, above Erigor's unconscious form, staring at his damaged form.
The others walked over to see what she meant, and at the sight Gray closed his eyes. Erigor's arms looked as though they had been torn open revealing the bone beneath the flesh. It was the same on the left jaw of his face and there was no place that was left unscathed, meaning angry red marks dominated whatever wasn't bone-white.
"Must've been a powerful attack for something to do this sort of damage." Erza commented, and leaned over to check if Erigor had a pulse. However, just before her fingers could touch his throat Erigor woke with a start and gripped Erza's forearm with a firm grip. "Sh-she's a monsters! Worse than Lullaby's melody, nightmare... nightmare... nightmare..." With that he promptly lost consciousness again, losing touch with Erza's arm who yanked it out of the way before looking back at Lucy.
"Strange, I wonder what had occurred here then." Erza said, staring back at Erigor's unconscious form before she head a couch behind her. Looking back, the group noticed Lucy had woken up, and seemed to be wiping something from her chin before flicking it to the ground. Blood, most likely, they decided on. The color however, they missed.
"Lucy!" Gray shouted, running over to her. Though just as Lucy looked up, she lifted up a hand telling him to stop which he did with reluctance and confusion.
"Lucy, are you-" Gray began but was immediately cut off. "Yes, I'm good. Just fell down a little to hard." Lucy told him, causing Erza, Mirajane, and gray's eyes to narrow in suspicion.
Lucy lifted her hands up before waving them, "No really, his attack was more powerful than I expected."
They nodded, knowing that would be the best they'd get out of her for awhile, Mirajane however, was determined to discover what had occurred. She needed to know if Lucy was really on their side or not, and with everything happening she wasn't so sure about the blonde mage.
"What about Lullaby?" Erza asked, changing the topic to a more important one at stake.
Lucy remembered then what had happened to find herself unconscious, Lullaby was the last she saw and held.
The hell did the damn flute do to cause her to pass out? Lucy wondered.
"Should be near Erigor." Lucy replied, walking over to the magic vehicle before strapping herself into the device that transferred her magic energy into mechanical energy.
"Should you be driving that, Lu-" Lisanna didn't get to finish and was interrupted by Natsu jumping up as he held Lullaby in his hands.
Mirajane snatched it from him, not wanting to put trust to Natsu who could potentially lose the instrument of death.
"Hey!"
"Lucy, you sure you're alright?" Gray asked his partner again, leaning up against the vehicle. "Yes, I'm sure." Lucy responded before she began to pour her magic into the magic causing it to slowly come to a move before cutting off the transfer making sure it worked.
Erza turned to Lucy as though scrutinizing her before sighing and looking at everyone this time. "Since we're here already... we might as well go see our master at the meeting place. We need to report this incident and ask what to do with this flute. Clover's just ahead anyways." With everyone onboard with the plan, the others loaded unto the vehicle, sparing Lucy only one or two side glances towards driving such a vehicle which were directly ignored.
However, internally, Lucy couldn't help but think if she could feel, there would be a nasty gut feeling occurring right about now.
Whatever, what could possibly go wrong?
Everything, thought Lucy.
Well, that concludes for this chapter! Almost 4000 words but not quite because my computer has been messing up my spacing, and fanfiction keeps going down so I don't won't to miss missing anymore saves.
Thanks again to all those who are simply reading this.
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-Queen of the Demon Rabbits