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Chapter 61, Consequences

A/N: Got a question for what was the name for my community for Fairy Tail. It's called The Shadow of Lucy Heartifilia, to those that want to join that's its name. Not very many stories in it so far, I believe.

Also...

I've noticed that many people here are beginning to see Lucy as an Over Powered character, but really she's not if you look at it as I have. Lucy is from the future of the past where she faced the horrible and riotous dragons. They took over and massacred Fiore, and Lucy struggled there. She didn't just all of a sudden gain power to defeat them, no, she went back in time and gained a new power because of it.

The reason she seems OP is due to the fact that she's used to dealing with stronger opponents, Kira is a good example for that. Lucy didn't even defeat her, no, she was defeated and killed. The Dragon King was the one who killed Kira.

It's sort of like when the others were facing off the Royal Guards and discovered they were so easy to defeat not just because they sucked but because they had faced far worse opponents, and these people were a break for Fairy Tail.

Lucy does have a weakness too, many weaknesses at that. Come on readers, think about it… what are her weaknesses? What makes her stronger? How does it connect to her past? The Eclipse Gate? Think about it, and maybe then can you tell me why you think she is over powered.

Erigor is from Eisenwald, a dark guild, but not a very threatening one. Natsu, I'll admit had a cooler battle against Erigor, but why not say he's overpowered? He's never actually lost a battle before, yes he did overcome it through pain, blood, and struggle, but still never loosed as Lucy has multiple times.

For Lucy, it's her reason for becoming stronger. The magic given to her by the Dragon King comes into use later, and believe it or not it isn't OP due to the cost. All ancient magic comes with a cost after all, do remember that.

I'm not trying to offend anyone with this either, it's simply because I want you to think about the word over powered and connect it with Lucy and everything she has faced ok? That way, you'll hopefully realize that with every strong character there's an even stronger character in front of them. Metaphorically speaking, of course.

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail

Normal Pov...

The ride to Clover Town was as quiet as the breeze in the wind. Lucy's magic was gentle as it was transferred into mechanical energy, giving the vehicle a smooth ride despite the rough terrain which was nice to the others after dealing with Erza's rather rocky driving. She was in a hurry of course, while Lucy was not. Erigor was defeated and they now hold Lullaby in their hands, quite a change in the timeline Lucy mused to herself silently. A small change, but still a change in time.

"It's strange, this feels just like any other wooden flute. No dark feeling to it, or anything." Erza mused to her right, who insisted she sit in the front by Lucy in case she collapsed after fighting Erigor. Lucy held back an eye-roll. Defeated Erigor was no trouble, and she feels anything but drained. She knew that she was concerned due to finding her unconscious when they arrived, honestly Lucy has no idea how that happened, but she feels fantastic; like she just woke up from this horrible nightmare and had the best strawberry milk shake of her life.

She feels... almost free. Almost, though the feeling allows her to breathe easier none the less.

"It may seem that way, but do remember it's called the instrument of death for a reason." Lucy replied, though internally she agreed with Erza. Before, it had this warning aura surrounding it and now, well now it's just gone. Hollow. Would it have to do with her black blood? Lucy wondered icily, not at all happy about the change. She would have to look into this more, after all not even she knew of the consequences of having black magic become a living, beating organ.

How did that work, anyways? Lucy wondered, remembering the last words of her shadow to her. Kei had told her more about it, in her dreams. When Kira crushed her heart, Lucy had indeed died right then which ended her contracts with her celestial spirits in that world. Her Lost Soul magic took its place in her heart by her shadow who moved it there. Naturally, magic is filtered into a mage's magic filters, which are located throughout the body but never the heart.

Her shadow had changed that, she still had her natural auras flowing through the magical filters but no longer does the black - Lost Soul - magic course through those filters but were actually shaped into the heart organ in order for Lucy to live again.

Lucy halted suddenly in thought, she didn't even breathe as a conclusion settled in her conscious. What if...?

No, absolutely not. Yet, it was the only thing that could possible explain Lullaby's dark magic aura disappearing and her blood suddenly turning black.

Don't be ignorant, Lucy. Her conscious told her, but before she could even continue her thoughts on it, they had arrived at the building in Clover Town the guild masters were meeting at. Some how, Lucy knew she would feel relieved that she no longer had to think on this. Ignorance be damned.

Closing her eyes, she allow Erza to take the lead with the Lullaby in one hand, Lucy followed her and the others inside the meeting center.

"Master." Erza's voice caused the guild masters in the building to quiet, as the teenagers approached a seemingly tipsy Makarov, who sat comfortable on a box with a mug of alcohol in one hand and his staff in the other.

However, his eyes snapped open immediately in surprise by her voice, and found himself jumping in surprise and asking why they're here, rather comically might one add.

"We retrieved the flute, Lullaby from the dark guild Eisenwald who planned to use it's melody on you all here." Erza announced, revealing Lullaby to the crowd before her.

Master Makarov's eyes widened considerably before he hopped down the small box and walked up to the six mages. He motioned his hand, in which Erza placed the skull shaped flute into his hand. Quickly, the Fairy Tail guild master studied the flute before his brows narrowed in confusion and he began to mutter to himself gibberish.

"What's going on, Makarov?" The master of Mermaid Heel asked, agitated. Lucy looked up at the women, having never seen her before. She was tall for a women, and had dark red and black hair that seemed to waver like ocean waves. She wore a shell bikini top and a long green beech like shirt. Her eyes were an emerald green that seemed to glow against her pale skin. Her tone was sharp and demanding as well, but had a soft coating to it that not many would notice without searching for it.

"It seems that Lullaby has lost it's living magic, or rather the dark energy of Zeref that once fueled it." The Fairy Tail guild master replied, eyeing the hollow flute with interest and confusion.

"But that's impossible isn't it? Oh, and aren't you rather attractive men." Blue Pegasus's guild master replied, eyeing Gray and Natsu with interest who were practically twitching in chills.

"Maybe it is simply hiding from us, maybe a spell will pull it out." A random guild master said.

"Hmm, I do doubt it, but its worth a shot." Makarov replied, before raising a hand over the flute. Slowly a golden light lit up in his hand, coating it like a second skin before he lowered it unto the skull. Nothing happened at first, but then Lucy stumbled backwards drawing all eyes to her as she seemed to claw at her chest were her heart lay above.

Suddenly, Lucy's eyes lit up into red orbs, and she smirked with unsaid words that spelled P.A.I.N.

"Big. Mistake." Her voice echoed and amplified with a foreign masculine voice. "Ah, so there you are Lullaby." Master Makarov replied in a hard voice. "Possessing one of my brats was not a wise choice." He voiced in a calm but deadly tone.

Possession, so that's what he thought. Lullaby and Lucy mused silently together, before Lullaby laughed aloud. Lucy hated being in this position, but now she knew she was correct in her assumptions. Her heart was created from dark magic, for her Lost Soul magic is a dark magic all on its own. It's a dark magic because naturally like all dark magic its essence grows stronger when empowered by another source of dark magic. That's one of the main reasons the legendary Zeref was so powerful, along with his demons. Together, the demons shared Zeref's dark magic who grew stronger every time they 'died' because new dark energy would replenish in its place fueling the other demons in more dark energy which filtered to its owner, Lord Zeref.

In case one got confused, to put it simply dark magic grows stronger when combined with an outside source or new source of dark energy. Dark magic is combined when the stronger of the dark energy finds a weaker or defeated source of dark energy which is immediately absorbed and strengthens its powers.

With Lucy, having black magic/energy in the form of an organ and serving as the heart to keep her alive, breathing, and blood flowing has changed the flow of the dark energy's aura inside of her. In every mage they have magical filters which keep the magical energy flowing through the body in all but the brain and the heart. The heart organ pumps blood throughout the body, and now that the original fleshy heart has been replaced by dark energy, it can only maintain the size of the original heart so when it absorbs dark magic, it has no choice but to pump it into the blood stream which essentially turns the red blood black. Sort of like a cloak.

The good thing about this is, if the dark energy wasn't pumped into the blood stream it would enlarge the heart and eventually cause it to expand and explode after a long period of time or after absorbing large amounts of dark energy which would clearly kill the owner.

The bad thing is that if the dark energy was created as a living magic it is attached to a spirit or rather a devil which depending on the size of that matter could even become a demon. In Lullaby's case, Zeref had created the devil by attaching his dark energy with a dark soul or spirit creating the living magic in order for the devil to remain its form.

When Lucy's black heart absorbed Lullaby's dark energy, she accidently and unknowingly put the devil spirit inside of her ultimately giving it the perfect opportunity to break free. So, technically in a sense she has been possessed, she just got taken from the inside rather than the outside.

With Lullaby taking over her body, she just has to sever the devil's connection with its dark energy which would unbalance its form as a devil because it destroys the living magic and would give Lucy control of the dark energy, however, until then she would be trapped as the Lullaby's host.

"Ka, ka, ka. You mages have no guts. Not even realizing when one of your own has been taken by a devil! I can't hold this form any longer, as much as I would love to. I'll just rise and devour your souls myself." Lullaby spoke through Lucy's body, eyes gleaming in hunger. Smoke rose out of Lucy's mouth, then her eyes rolled backwards as smoke rose out there, followed by her ears as a shape rose out and cloaked Lucy's form as it grew in size.

The building began to crack and collapse as Lullaby took his form, which rose outside the heights of the building. The five remaining Fairy Tail mages ran out, followed by the guild masters and continued to watch as Lullaby took shape until it stood as a huge tree-like humanoid being.

"Let me consume your pitiful souls." It told them, towering over them revealing its holes throughout its form and hollow eyes and mouth.

"Wha!"

"A-a monster!"

"Lucy!"

Mirajane growled in anger realizing why Lucy had been acting strange. Or at least, she assumed she knew. The others believed the same, and got ready to fight and defend the guild masters. "Oh my, this is bad..." The Blue Pegasus guild master said, a hand over his mouth in surprise. "It's the devil from the book of Zeref!" One of the guild masters shouted, realizing what situation they just happened to get themselves into. "This isn't looking so good." One of the elder guild masters stated. "Shall we help them out?" Another elder guild master asked. "My back hurts." An even older, shorter, and limp guild master replied. "Just leave it to them youngsters."

Lullaby flexed his right arm, grinning down at the tiny people behind him. Well, they appeared tiny to him anyways. "I'm starving to death. So I'm gonna eat your souls!"

"WHHAAAT?" Natsu growled, fists clenched in anger. "Souls are edible?" He asked Lisanna. "How the hell should I know?!" She replied back.

"What... is going on? How could a devil come out of a flute?" A random guild master asked. "That devil is the Lullaby itself, meaning its a living magic. That's Zeref's magic." One of the more knowledgeable guild masters replied.

"Living magic..." Erza said to herself.

"Zeref? You mean Zeref from the ancient times?" Gray shouted, sweating.

"Dark mage Zeref, the most atrocious mage in the history of magic. I never imagined that this adverse legacy from several hundred years ago would reappear..." He trailed off, though a creepy smile was still plastered on his expression.

While for a moment the others took this in, Lullaby wasted no time and smirked above them as it towered over them. "Now, whose soul should I enjoy first?" His eyes landed on the small group of teens. "I've decided..."

"All of yours!" it shouted, before flames launched out of his mouth heading straight towards the guild masters.

The five mages moved forward, Mirajane and Erza taking flight immediately towards Lullaby to distract it from further ranged attacks while Gray stayed back and shielded the guild masters from the attack with his ice shield. Lisanna transformed into another feline form, but this time a cross between a golden eagle and a lion, also known as the mythical being, Griffin.

Letting out a roar and a single hard flap of the golden wings she launched forward and took the left side of the devil whilst Mirajane and Erza covered the right. Erza took on her Heaven's Wheel Armor while Mirajane had taken on her Demon Takeover form; stage one.

Erza let out a couple blades into its legs, followed by a powerful punch into its bicep delivered by Mirajane. Gray let out an attack of Ice Lance to its head angering it and causing it to throw a punch towards Natsu, who leaped unto its arm while it destroyed the boulder he had been standing on. Leaping forward, he threw a flaming fist at Lullaby's jaw throwing its head back before he back-flipped off its neck and landed swiftly on Lisanna's back, to keep him from getting motion sickness and avoiding the swipe of an arm at Natsu by the angry devil.

"Thanks Lis!" Natsu grinned, causing Lisanna to reply with a victory growl before they circled around Lullaby searching for a good hit.

"Now!" Gray shouted, lowering the shield seeing Lullaby clearly distracted and ran to join his comrades in battle.

Erza quickly took her Black Wing Armor which put powerful destructive power into one swing, while Mirajane drew soul extinction into its dark purple orb in her right hand, Gray had his ice cannon ready, Natsu leapt off and gathered Fire-Dragon's Brilliant Flame, and finally to top it off Lisanna transformed once again into a giant saber cat and prepared for a finishing claw attack.

Together they let out their attacks, each doing their own finisher into Lullaby's form. "For Lucy!" They shouted united, willing to free their comrade from the devil's possession.

Lullaby was thrown backwards, and seemed just about to land on top of the Guild Master's Meeting Hall, but instead seemed to take a shift unknowingly by Lucy's pure sense of will and instead landed into the forest next to it, knocking down just about every single tree in range.

"A-Amazing! This is definitely Fairy Tail's Strongest Team!" Master Makarov said proudly, relieved to see their meeting hall still standing after all that destruction.

"Lucy!" Gray shouted, remembering Lucy was possessed by that thing and ran towards the destroyed forest with the rest of his comrades.

Meanwhile behind the Guild Masters stared after the five Fairy Tail mages before their eyes turned to Makarov. "Goodness, I don't know how this happened but we certainly owe Fairy Tail one." One of the guild masters said, causing Makarov to jump in joy that for once Fairy Tail didn't destroy the town, and Clover Town no less.

"Lucy!" Gray shouted again, finding Lullaby's presence gone but Lucy's body presence.

"Lucy!" The other four yelled, finding Lucy being lifted into Gray's arm. She appeared fine, but was unconscious. "She's fine." Gray answered before his teammates could ask. "Fortunately with Lullaby defeated, Lucy remains untouched by his possession on her." He tells them, keeping a firm grip with Lucy in his arms.

Erza sighed in relief. "That's good." Was all she needed to say, she had been worried of course. After all, it isn't every day a Fairy Tail mage or anybody for that matter is possessed by a devil of Zeref's creation.

When the five Fairy Tail mages returned, with the sixth member in the ice mage's arms, Makarov sighed in relief. "Well done. It's nice to see for once you brats haven't destroyed anything!" He laughed merrily, causing the teenagers to laugh as well, all a bit nervously and sheepishly however.

Indeed it was the first Fairy Tail hadn't destroyed much of anything, especially Natsu being present. The six were indeed the strongest team Fairy Tail could offer currently, they just didn't know their team was official yet.

Soon though, they would be.

And... that concludes this chapter!

I told you this story would be updated more often, but some of you didn't believe me, meh. It's alright though, rather prove it than disappoint you.

Also, for those totally shipping GraLu, well, prepare to be disappointed! XD

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