My Secret

Jackal vs Lucy

Summary
Lucy and Natsu after Franmalth's defeat
Franmalth falls after Natsu's attack and Lucy, relieved, watches as all the souls stolen by the Demon are returning to their appropriate places. Suddenly, the soul of Hades appears behind the Mages, warning them of Tartaros' true plans and tells them to let Makarov know to "let the light out".[1] The group is taken aback and Happy soon decides to leave in order to reach Master.[2] Lucy, while worried about Gray fighting against his opponent, decides to continue their search for Mirajane, when suddenly, they are contacted by Warren Rocko through his Telepathy. It is revealed that Mirajane is safe and Lucy lets everyone know that Wendy and Carla have stopped Face.[3]

Not long after Happy relays Hades' message to Makarov, their Telepathy is hijacked by Mard Geer, who, after introducing himself, tells the Fairy Tail Mages that they have no future and activates Alegria. Cube shakes and its walls begin deforming, sucking in all the Mages. In spite of their effort, Natsu and Lucy are unable to reach each other and end up being separated, while everyone else begin to be trapped by the fortress, soon to be tranformed into Plutogrim. However, the Demons notice someone's presence and it is revealed that the only human that has escaped Alegria is Lucy.[4] Looking around, Lucy wonders where she is and what happened, while Plutogrim rampages through Magnolia Town, destroying the Kardia Cathedral. Mard Geer then reaches everyone, including Lucy, through Telepathy, to have the Tartaros' soldiers hunt after the girl for promotion as a prize. It is at that moment when a stream of water flowing out of Plutogrim hits Lucy and she gets swept away, soon to be found by the first group of Tartaros' henchmen.[5]

Lucy fends off Tartaros' members
While using a wooden board to stay on the surface of water, Lucy witnesses several soldiers going after her and uses Fleuve d'étoiles to fend them off. As more are coming, shooting beams of energy out of their weapons, Lucy takes advantage of her whip and maneuvers in order to evade and delivers a kick to the attackers. She proceeds summoning Sagittarius who defeats several more soldiers, until Lamy appears, proving that Sagittarius' arrows are ineffective against her Slippery Curse and thus Lucy summons Virgo instead to face the female Demon. An appearance of the maid seemingly annoys Lamy, claiming that her and Virgo's characters overlap, much to the Spirit's surprise.[6]

At that moment, both Virgo and Lucy notice someone nearing their location and Lucy summons Loke to block Torafuzar's incoming attack. The Demon is surprised to have his katana parried by bare hands, even though Loke takes some damage. Lamy is pleased by Loke's appearance and Virgo questions the similarity between their characters one more time. Lamy then requests Torafuzar to let her deal with Lucy, however, Torafuzar simply states that he's going to carry out his duty and proceeds attacking Loke. Lucy begins showing signs of exhaustion and thus, knowing how much of Magic they take, Loke and Virgo are determined to defeat their opponents as soon as possible. Much to their horror, a third enemy, Jackal, approaches Lucy. Even though she wonders how it is possible that Jackal is still alive, Lucy decides to face him on her own and attempts to tie him up with her whip.[7]

Lucy's attempt to summon three Spirits at the same time
However, Jackal simply smirks, remarking that Lucy has probably forgotten about his Bomb Curse and proceeds using it, almost causing her to fall off the wooden board. Lucy questions her friends' whereabouts, but Jackal replies with more explosions. Torafuzar tells him to stop playing with his target, however, being under the impression that Natsu and Happy are dead, Jackal wants to torture Lucy for a little longer. She falls down to water as Jackal continues throwing explosions, however, Lucy soon grabs her chance and, much to the horror of Loke and Virgo, attempts to summon the third Spirit. As Aquarius appears, Virgo exclaims that Lucy's body cannot take three Spirits at the same time.[8] Exhausted, but happy to see Aquarius' arrival, Lucy stands back as Aquarius makes full use of her Water Magic to sweep Jackal away. Virgo and Loke beg Lucy to close one of the gates while she can, however, at the same time, Torafuzar approaches Aquarius, claiming water to be his specialty, and slashes the Spirit. Before Loke and Virgo can help, they are ambushed by Jackal, who uses his Curse to deal enough damage in order to send them right back to the Celestial Spirit World.[9]

Lying on the ground, Lucy is approached by Lamy and Jackal, who, knowing that she's out of Magic, want to torture her more, in spite of Torafuzar insisting that they finish her off immediately. Thinking that she cannot let it end like this, Lucy is hit by Jackal's explosion one more time and expresses her pain, much to Jackal and Lamy's amusement. Torafuzar tries to stop this, however, Jackal threatens him, so the Demon decides to take a leave. Lamy then grasps Lucy's arms to give Jackal a perfect target, but Jackal instead grabs Lamy's face and blows her up, laughing that she is annoying. A disgusted Lucy states that Lamy was his comrade, but Jackal grins that Lucy should instead worry about herself.

Story begins
"How could you, she was your comrade." Whispers Lucy weakly. "Haha she was annoying. Now you shouldn't be worried about her, I would worry about yourself." Smirked Jackal. Lucy felt extreme pain all over her body and passed out do the pain.

Hour later
"Well you were a fun toy to play with Blondie but now I think it's time to end your pathetic life," grinned Jackal. "Not if I have a say!" Yelled Aquarius. Jackal was hit by waves of water at high speed. Slowly Lucy woke up and screamed at the top of her lungs for her whole lower part was in extreme pain and bleeding, also the rest of her was all scratched, bloody, and extremely bruised. "Lucy listen to me. I can't keep this monster at bay forever, you are going to have to summon the Spirit King." Commanded Aquarius.