You're Warm (Fairy Tail)

Unknown Rage

You're Warm

Chapter 22: Unknown Rage

   "And so, under recent news, three citizens in Magnolia have been severely injured last night after they were unknowingly attacked roughly around nine forty-five at night in alleyways. No one has reported anything, and the Magic Council believes that magic was used to inflict those injuries on the three victims... The victims were at age..."

Lucy snapped her head to the door when she heard two pairs of feet coming to her direction. Staring at the two boys that stood there, she tipped her head to the side when they entered her room without a word being exchanged.

"Uhm... What are you doing?" she asked, staring at them where Rogue looked out to the window before turning his attention to the television that was still announcing news about the unknown attacks that occurred last night.

Sting standing there, he narrowed his eyes. "What was that thing that tried to attack us?" he asked before glancing up to the television. 

His eyes shifting back onto her, he gave her a pointed look where she narrowed her eyes back at him with her hands clenching onto her blanket. "Where did you disappear when we came to do the checkup on you?" he then asked where she widened her eyes and gritted her teeth.

"I was in the bathroom down the hallway... Was it wrong for me to go to the bathroom without telling you both?"

Rogue looked at her in confusion, as if he was trying to figure her out. "We asked a nurse to see if you were there and there was nothing and no one there..." he pointed out.

The female blonde rolled her eyes which made Sting growl to her actions in agitation. "And here I thought you were someone that would be cool to hang out with. Look here blondie, I don't have time to babysit you -" he began where she interrupted him.

   "Then why don't you just walk away?" she butted before snapping her head to the door to see Erza and Gray standing there looking all lost.

"And why are you two even here when I don't even know you?" she snarled.

Sting gritted his teeth as he sensed Lucy's magic slowly getting powerful again like last night. Trying to hold in his anger, he spat out the message that he was supposed to inform the girl given by the doctors. "Look, you're fine now and you're getting discharged this afternoon. Get a shower and get ready to leave at three in the afternoon," he said where he turned his head to look at Erza and Gray in annoyance.

"We have something important to talk to Lucy about, so can you two just leave already?" he growled where Erza narrowed her eyes and crossed her arms.

"We're her friends. Why should we leave?" she argued which made Lucy's blood boil for some unknown reason.

The girl's mouth opening without her knowing, she harshly said, "I don't know you two so why won't you leave us to talk?" Glaring at Erza, she slowly sat up and snarled savagely which made the scarlet flinch.

"Didn't you want us to train you?" Erza questioned.

Lucy scoffed as she looked out of the window before turning her head to look at Erza mockingly. "I don't need to be trained. I'm stronger than I was before, so you can take your training somewhere else and train someone who truly cares," she spat before raising her right arm up into the air where a scythe appeared above her open palm.

Holding it where the blade stopped near Erza's throat, she narrowed her eyes which seemed to be glowing. "I won't hesitate," she firmly said.

Sting and Rogue widened their eyes where the Shadow Dragon Slayer quickly took sneaky shots of the scythe in Lucy's hold. Silently slipping his phone back into his pocket, he held his breath in when he noted the thick tension arising.

"Did we really hurt you that much to make you not hesitate to hurt us - To hate us that much?" Erza whispered as she glanced down to the sharp blade near her throat.

The sounds of blades clashing against each other, Sting and Rogue took a step back when Lucy's scythe came flying to the floor in front of them. Erza's blade in the pillow right next to Lucy's head, she firmly held the blonde down in her bed with a frown on her face. "Although you're not hesitant on injuring us, we don't want to inflict any damage on you. We don't want to hurt you like what we've done to you in past... We're not even close to Natsu anymore..." Erza stated where Lucy's body jolted to the name mentioned.

"N-Natsu..." she whispered before widening her eyes where her head began to throb painfully.

Pushing the scarlet away from her, Lucy placed her hands on her head and gave out a painful scream where the beast residing within her began to go crazy. Her back bending as she tried to fight against the pain, she wailed like a banshee screaming in the night.

"That name is more annoying than I thought! Gyaaaah!" she yelled which was slightly gruffer since it was mixed with another voice.
Squeezing her eyes shut, she gritted her teeth, not knowing that Belladonna was semi-transparent to the world around her.

Belladonna screaming, Lucy screamed as well as she snapped her eyes open to stare up to the ceiling in sheer agony. Skeleton-like wing frames sprouting from her back, she sat up and tugged her hair in pain. 

"Kill it! Kill it! Kill it!" she screamed over and over again where Belladonna looked at Erza and Gray.

     "Why can't that name vanish?! Why can't I overtake these memories fully?! I thought I eradicated everything?!" they questioned in fury before skin grew over the frames.

Lucy pulling herself to stand, she stretched out her hand where her scythe flew back into her hold. Throwing it to the window where glass shattered, making Erza and other cover their eyes to prevent shards from entering their eyes, they heard wings flapping to the sounds of glass making contact to the floor.

"If he's not alive, then surely I will gain control! I will become powerful!" Lucy and Belladonna cried out before flying through the windows where Rogue and Sting widened their eyes and quickly ran to the broken things.

 "What the fuck just happened?!" Sting yelled as they all watched Lucy fly away with Belladonna's almost-opaque figure hovering above her.

Rogue taking as many photos as he could, he quickly sent them over to Sakura who was waiting patiently. Knowing that they would soon return from the tournament in four days, he gritted his teeth before grabbing Sting's jacket to tell him to follow the girl that had just flew away.

"We can't let her leave like this! Sakura told us to look after her remember?!" he yelled where Sting hastily nodded and ran out of the room, leaving Erza and Gray stunned at what just happened.

   "Do you think that she's responsible for those unknown attacks that happened last night?" Sting asked as they bolted down the hallways.

Rogue nodding, they made a sharp turn where they heard two other pairs of feet chasing after them. Making another turn, he was confident about his answer. "Yes. By the looks of it, Lucy has lost control of whatever she has living within her," he said.

Both of them running, they heard Rogue's phone go off where they looked at each other knowingly. The Shadow Dragon Slayer answering the call, they eagerly listened to Sakura's voice.

   "That thing is no beast of the soul!" she cried out through the speakers.