Becoming Time

Chapter 27

A/N: ....the manga (529)...urg...I spotted something that made me cringe...bleh

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~Where we left off from the last chapter~  She has many other tricks up her sleeves that she could use to defeat this woman. And she will not succumb to the  mercy of the redhead woman that bore no feelings for a life that she had given.

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Lucy stood angrily as she looked at the woman of who spoke badly of her friends, especially Erza. She will never forgive this person.

Irene continued to stand with a smirk as she looked down on a struggling blonde, and continued to stand effortlessly without a single scratch.

"This is fun, don't you think?" Irene droned with a wider smirk of a madman.

Lucy gritted her teeth and silently and quickly healed her bleeding leg, and ignored her bleeding face. She didn't care about her face, but she needed her legs to be able take down this woman in front of her,

"Shut up, you sadistic bitch." The young mage growled.

Irene only chuckled. "Sadistic? No...I prefer the term of...Avenger."

"Avenger?" Lucy questioned as she continued to heal her leg.

"To avenge my life."

Lucy narrowed her eyes. "But you're still alive."

Irene frowned for a moment. "I only got to see you a small child...and that was when I was in a cell, confined for accusation of being part dragon. I don't expect you to know the truth of everything."

"Truth?"

Irene smirked some more. "I could tell you everything...but I'll tell you after I kill you."

"Why not just tell me?"

"Because I want to kill the last Heartfilia...and spill the damn blood that I so much hate. And I want to hear you scream."

Lucy gritted and took a step forward as soon as she had healed her leg. "Then I'll stop you and beat the truth out of you before you kill me. I'm very hard to kill...and I will not let you kill me. I refuse to die. Not yet anyways."

Irene then stared at the young blonde with observatory glaze. "Do you even know why Zeref is gathering an army?"

Lucy was taken aback a little, not expecting that kind of response. "I had limited Intel, and I could only read the mind of a handful, and not all of them have the info that I needed. I was told that Zeref wanted to take over the world and destroy it."

Irene chuckled a little. "Perhaps. But that's only if things doesn't go with the things Zeref had planned."

"Huh?"

"His Majesty has more ambitions than just destroying the world."

Lucy took another step toward the blonde. "And what would this ambition be?"

"I'll tell you after I kill you." Irene grinned raising her staff. "I want to hear your scream now."

As soon as the redheaded woman raised her staff, the ground below Lucy begun shrink before expanding and exploded. Luckily the blonde had jumped away in time from the explosion.

As Lucy jumped to a safe distance, she turned back to toward to where Irene should be, but soon found that she was nowhere to be found. With alert in her eyes, she started to look around. When she turned around, she was met with a fist to her stomach and was sent flying across the ground. Lucy swore she felt a rib cracking from the impact.