The Zodiac Demon

Chapter 3

Chapter 3

"...Ah...My head. What happened?" Lucy thought as her eyes fluttered open.

When Lucy became more awake, she was met with a surprising sight. A white ceiling obviously inside of some kind room. She pushed herself up, then just realizing that she was also lying on a soft bed. Lucy looked around, completely confused.

"Where...am I?" Lucy muttered, looking around.

Before she could try to move, pain shot through her whole right shoulder. She gripped it and then just noticed that completely wrapped in bandages. She checked the rest of her limbs and saw that one of her ankles, part of her left forearm, and her whole waist was wrapped in bandages. Along with on patch being on her cheek. When she looked down to see she only had on a plain white dress, Lucy looked to find some clothes folded on a table next to some gloves and a belt across the room. Just when she asked that, Lucy saw the door open. Two boys and a girl came in.

One of the boys had glasses and was wearing some black clothes over a whit shirt and tie, the other boy had pointy ears and was carrying something long in a red sleeve on his back while he just wore a buttoned up shirt and tie with black pants and shoes, and the girl had blonde hair with a white shirt and short pink skirt with brown shoes and white knee high socks. All three of them wore different clothes, but they appeared to be some kind of uniforms.

"Oh good, you're awake. I was so worried." the girl said, rushing to the side of Lucy's bed.

"Try not to move too much. I managed to heal some of your wounds, but it's best if you get some rest." the girl added.

"Um, d-did you bring me here?" Lucy asked.

"No, that was actually us." the boy with pointy ears said. Lucy looked at the two boys.

"My name is Yukio Okumura." he said.

"My name is Rin Okumura." he said.

"And my name is Shiemi Moriyama." she said, bowing her head.

"Oh, well, thank you. And it's nice to meet all of you. But, just, what happened to me?" Lucy said.

"We were actually about to ask you that. You see, we found you unconscious in a cave completely beaten up." Yukio said, sitting in a chair beside Lucy's bed.

"In a cave?" Lucy said.

"Yes. And we got a report of a demon being there. So, do you remember anything?" Yukio asked.

"...Well, I remember buying those gloves that are on the table, then leaving on the train, and walking into a cave, but that's it." Lucy said.

"Ok. Well, after seeing your injures, it's definitely clear that a demon is there. Thank you telling us. Now, what's your name? We'll gladly escort you back home." Yukio said.

"My name is...it's...it's...Lucy! Yeah, that's it." she said, struggling for a second.

"You seemed to have trouble with that." Yukio said.

"Is something wrong?" Rin asked.

"Actually, besides a few things, I...I can't remember anything. I remember living with my mom and dad as a kid, a few random things, but then I'm suddenly buying gloves and going to a mountain." Lucy said.

"You mean you have partial amnesia?" the Shiemi asked.

"I guess so." Lucy answered.

"Yukio, we can't just leave her like this." Rin said.

"Exactly. It was obviously caused because the demon attack. Look at her eyes." Yukio said.

Rin and Shiemi looked at Lucy's eyes and they noticed what they meant. Lucy's eyes were the color brown shifting to gray. The brown area was obviously bigger than the grey area, but it was still gradually spreading.