Trash: A Collection of Stories

Chapter 11

It's been a month since I became a criminal. The guys and I have been training together non stop all through the day and night.

"Men and Lucy, I think the time has come to take action. The dragons will be coming soon so we must move quick. Lucy, you know what you have to do. The rest of you, prepare yourself for the worst," Zeref told us.

"Right," we said in unison and got to our stations. First task: trick the slayers into coming together in one place. I transformed into Arcadios and gave one more glance at Zeref. He nodded and I jumped over the edge, landing gracefully a few streets from Sabertooth.

I walked to their guild and knocked on the door, pushing away the nervousness I felt. The two slayers were convenient enough to answer it.

"Arcadios?" Sting sounded confused.

"Hello, Mr Sting and Mr Rouge. Ever since the disappearance of Lucy Heartfilia, the Princess has been on high alert for another attack. She has decided it would be best if she went into hiding, but she still wants to have someone to protect her. Would you two be up to it?"

"Of course, Lucy has been off lately." Rouge still had yet to say anything, but the creepy part was he was giving me a death glare, his right eye twitching. Is that another sign? I looked back to Sting, he had it too. How did I not notice when I first saw them?

"Uh, here's the spot she will be staying at. Please come early tomorrow morning." I handed them a slip of paper.

"Oh, we will be there." His voice was an octave deeper than it normally is. Am I just imagining this?

"Goodbye, Lucy," Rouge's voice was barely audible, but raspy. They knew, why weren't they attacking me?

But then they began shaking, only for a second. They looked blank and confused, staring at the paper.

"When did I get here?" Sting put his hand to his forehead.

"So, will you come?" I asked, trying to hurry this along.

"Uh, yeah. See you in the morning." The door closed and I bolted.

'Hopefully Natsu and the others won't be like that.' I used my magic to speed to the guild and did the same thing I did at Sabertooth. Everything that happened back there happened here too. The only difference was that Mira walked over to the door and saw through my transformation magic.

"Lucy?" She gasped, getting the guilds attention.

"No, I'm obviously not Lucy," I put my hands up and took a step back.

"She had the nerve to come here?" Laxus shoved anyone in his way aside and came right up to me face. "If Mira is right and you are Lucy, I will come after you."

"I told you, I'm not Lucy. Now please tell me if Natsu, Gajeel, and Wendy will be meeting us there or not?"

"Yeah they'll be there, but don't be surprised if they aren't the only ones who show up."

"Thank you for helping us. I know the princess will feel a lot safer in your hands."

"Yeah, sure." I turned away and began leaving when Makarov ran out.

"Mr Arcadios, please wait."

"What is it, sir?"

"Laxus, take everyone back inside and let us have a moment." He paused, but did as told. "Have you succumbed to your inner demons and want to take Natsu out once and for all?"

"I'm sorry?"

"I know you are Lucy, the magic energy radiating from you gives you away. What are you planning here? I thought you and Natsu were on good grounds."

"I think you have everything mixed up, I'm not Lucy, I keep telling you that. You must be feeling one of your guild members magic. I must be getting back to the kingdom now."

"Look here, you better start talking or I will be forced to stand in your way. You should be glad I haven't put you in the ground for attempting to kill my grandson."

This wasn't getting me anywhere. I transformed into my normal self. "If the dragon slayers aren't there tomorrow, the world will come to an end. Something big is going to go down, bring your whole guild if you must but you won't be able to stop us."

"Why you," he was about to jump at me.

"Don't do it. I'm leaving." With that I began running toward the location the slayers should be at in the morning.

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