Fallen Celestial (Fairy Tail fanfic)

Fallen Celestial Part 2

Lucy awoke to the site of a completely black sky, with not a single star in sight. She blinked in surprise a few times as she tried to reconstruct the memories of how she had ended up here. She remembered being on a train with the others, heading for a job that would give her the money for rent. The next thing that came to her was the storm and the monsters; their blood red eyes staring out of the darkness at her. She remembered the fight against the monsters, the Hellhounds as they had been called.

Lucy scrunched her brow in concentration as she tried to remember. And then all at once it came back to her. Trying to comfort Natsu, the trek back through the rain, Natsu's betrayal; and finally the man who appeared to offer her salvation.

Lucy shot up only to scream out in pain and fall back down, clutching her stomach as her body reprimanded her for the quick movements.

"You should not move so quickly, Milady, it is not wise for one as heavily wounded as you to move around much." A voice chuckled off to her side.

Lucy's head quickly turned to the source of the voice to find a man only a few years older than her tending to a fire, an arrogant smile upon his lips as he watched her. The man was dressed in a suit of almost pure white; from his shoes all the way up to his tie. The man's eyes were an almost emerald green and seemed to glow eerily in the darkness. His gaze, like his eyes, seemed to be piercing through Lucy like he could see every single thing that made her who she was. His hair was as black as the night that surrounded them and from what Lucy could see not a single strand was allowed to fall upon his face.

For a minute neither of them moved, Lucy stared blankly at the man while he simply returned the stare. But finally Lucy gave out a small yelp as she slowly rose to the point where she was sitting. Despite the protests of her body Lucy couldn't afford to be lying down with a man she didn't know so close.

"Who are you? What have you done to me?" Lucy growled as she reached for the keys at her side.

The man chuckled once again as he stepped back from the fire and stood with his back ramrod straight. "Now, now, is that any way to speak to someone who has just saved your life?" the man questioned smugly as he pointed down to Lucy's stomach.

It was at that point that Lucy remembered just how close she had come to death. She quickly looked down at herself and was shock by what she saw. The hole that Natsu had made was completely gone. In its place a large circle shaped scar had taken its place. The scar was large and jagged and had what almost looked like veins coming out of it and traveling across her skin. Lucy took a sharp breath as she gingerly passed a hand over it, confirming for herself that it was real.

Sorrow nearly overtook Lucy at that moment as she realized that everything that had happened had not been a dream, that it was all real and that her family had betrayed her. But just when she could feel the tears beginning to form in her eyes the feeling was swept away from her consciousness, almost as if it was blocked from happening.

Lucy blinked at the strange feeling of her sorrow fading and turned her head back up to stare at the man. The man stared at her with the same smug smile that he had on from the moment Lucy saw him and once again returned to tending to the fire.

"T-thank you for saving me." Lucy finally said as she inched closer to the flames, hoping to keep the chill of the night air from affecting her too much.

"Ah you need not thank me; it is only natural for one such as me to do anything in their power to protect the one they had formed a pact with." The man explained, never taking his eyes off the flames as he poked a log farther into the flames.