The Gods of Fairy Tail

Chapter 22

Lucy made her way toward the temple to where Natsu resided. During her walk she had the strangest feeling that something was following her. She stopped a couple times and checked around herself but she saw nothing. She continued on walking but she just couldn't shake the feeling that she was being followed. The second time she checked around herself she saw he an old man limping from a distance behind her. He looked crippled and moved as if he couldn't walk at all without assistance. Feeling compassionate, she approached the old man.

"May I help you sir?" She asked.

"Oh noble lady." The old man said. "Your magnificence is blinding. You cannot possibly be a mortal woman. Tell me are you a goddess?"

"Yes. I am Lucy Goddess of Marriage and Womanhood. How may I help you sir?"

"Oh virtuous goddess, I come begging for alms. Will you have pity on a poor, feeble old man?"

Suspecting no danger at all, Lucy walked closer to him with the attention of giving him one of her gold brooches so he could sell it for means to buy food with. But as soon as she was close enough old man's appearance changed and he suddenly started to grow larger and larger until it was clear that this was no old man but instead a giant. Lucy turned to flee but the giant held her down with his mighty hand.

"At last I have found the daughter of Jude!" He said in his terrible voice. "That bastard made me work as his slave for almost my entire life! Now that I am free I shall avenge myself by defiling his precious daughter!"

Hearing this, Lucy immediately tried to break away and flee but the giant's grip on her was too strong for her to overcome. She couldn't move her arms or legs. She could only lie on the ground and watch in horror as the monstrosity started to tear off parts of her dress. This was Lucy's worst nightmare. Here she was at the mercy of a vengeful giant who was going to steal her virtue and she was powerless to stop him. No doubt it would be a horrible experience and once he was done with her everyone god and mortal alike would see her as some filthy whore.

She fought as hard as she could. There wasn't much she could do due to having lost control of her limbs but she still kept trying. She had to at least try to escape. She couldn't just lie there and let him do it.

"Please! I beg of you! Don't do this!" She cried desperately.

"Hold still you trollop!" He told her before smacking her across the face. "Give up resisting! You are only delaying the inevitable!"

She let out a scream of bloody terror and just before the giant could tear off the part of her dress that covered her bussom a lighting bolt came down from  the heavens struck the giant. The electricity of it filled his bones and veins with seething pain and agony. The one responsible for the lighting attack was Natsu who was standing across from them. The clouds above him were thundering and his eyes were not as they usually were, they were like a storm. A wild storm that had been summoned by anger.

"You..." The giant said while trying to recover from the pain. "You dare strike a-"

But he didn't get a chance to finish because Natsu snapped his fingers which caused another lighting bolt to come down and strike the giant again.

"You pathetic!" Natsu spoke in a voice that matched the thunder above him.

Snap!

"Worthless!"

Snap!

"Despicable!"

Snap!

"Vile!"

Snap!

"Loathe some!"

Snap!

"Disgusting bastard! For what you done you don't deserve to live!"

Snap! Snap! Snap!

With each snap of his fingers more and more lighting bolts struck the giant until all that remained of him we're ashes. There was no body or organic remains. Just black ashes.

Lucy just sat there, trying to hold up her tattered dress while being both amazed and frightened. She had never seen him like this before. His eyes, his voice, his rage. It scared her. She was actually scared of him. She was scared of the silly and fun loving God of lightning. Mirajane's warning about his temper finally made sense to her. She wanted to get up and run away but for some reason she still couldn't move.

Natsu looked away from the ashes and turned his gaze to her. She saw the storm in his eyes hush and the clouds above his head become calm. His anger was almost instantly gone the moment he saw her.

"Are you alright?" He asked, his voice it's normal tone again.

At first she couldn't speak. She could only sit there and tremble but after a few minutes she managed to force herself to answer.

"No."

She started to cry. To cry so very hard. Slowly and with caution, Natsu approached the crying goddess. Before touching her he gave her a glance that asked for her permission and assured her that he meant no harm. She nodded to show him that he had her blessing. He hugged her as a means to comfort her and she accepted it. She cried for about an hour and when she finally stopped he picked her up and proceeded to take her back to his temple where he had his nymph servants Yukino and Sorano clean her up.

"Yukino says that the young lady only has a few bruises." His wine pourer Sting said to him. "She also says that the bath made her less tense."

"That is a relief." Natsu said.

"If I may ask sire, what happened to her?"

"I don't feel comfortable discussing it without her permission." He replied. "Tell the nymphs to comfort her in anyway they can and to give her anything she needs."

"Yes sire and shall I have them prepare a room for her?"

"Yes. There's no way she can return home in this condition. She needs rest for now so have a room ready."

"It shall be done sire."

Natsu dismissed Sting after that. He needed time to cool off. Despite acting calm around Lucy, it was all a facade. He was very angry over what he had witnessed. Now Natsu was known for being perverted and a womanizer but he would never commit rape. Never! It was a brutal, cruel, and disgusted act and any man who dare even try to commit it deserved to rot in Tartarus for all eternity. Mount Olympus was thundering with his rage over the subject and all who heard the thunder knew for a fact that the future king of the gods had been angered. It worried both Mavis and her older sons because it had been a long time since they had known Natsu was this angry. They prayed that this great rage wouldn't lead to disaster.