Last time in The Beautiful Beast (Book 1):

WARNING: DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT READ "The Beautiful Beast"!

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"Wolf pack terrorizing town. Twenty people have been taken and have not returned. Thirty people have been injured, twenty-four of them have not survived, the others will most likely not survive." Natsu read aloud a mission request.

"Why is that not on the S-Class board?" Gray asked.

"Does it matter?" Natsu asked. "Let's do it!"

"Natsu we might want to asked for a bit more help in this one." Lucy said.

"Lucy's right Natsu." Erza said. "Maybe we should ask some people for help."

"Oh, come on!" Natsu begged. "We can handle it."

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"They can use magic?" Lucy said.

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"Lucy's keys." Erza said as she held injured Gray while Natsu ran into the woods with Lucy following.

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A loud and extremely painful scream rang out in the woods. It sounded like Lucy.

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The largest wolf wrap his mouth around Lucy's neck. With her screaming in pain, the large wolf flung his head to the side and making Lucy's body be thrown in the same direction. But she wasn't screaming anymore. Because there was a large hole where she used to have a throat.

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Natsu was about to stand up with Lucy in his arms when all of a sudden Lucy's body started gasping, and her eyes shot open. Natsu dropped her and backed away from her body. The four sat there and stared at her body as they watched her eyes turned from white to their original chocolate brown. And then she sat up, coughing.

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"Guys!" Lucy said as she stepped forwards towards her restrained friends.

'Don't bother.'

The pack leader thought to Lucy.

'Besides it's time for you to wake up.'

"What?" Lucy asked. Them all the wolves turned and attacked Natsu, Erza, Gray, Happy, Levy, Juvia, Mira, and Gajeel. Their screams filled the room. "No!"

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'What's happening to me?'

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Natsu lifted his hand out to touch to touch the small wolf. It slowly moved its head closer to Natsu's hand until half of its face was in his palm, and it closed it eyes.

"Lucy."

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"What did you do to me?" Lucy demanded, from Ethan.

"I made you one of us." He said.

"And what exactly are you?" Lucy asked him.

"We are werewolves." He said.

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"What does that mean?" Lucy questioned as she kneeled on the floor in pain.

"It means this nice Lucy, will be replaced with an evil wolf version of you." He said. "So you either except that you are a werewolf, or you will be gone forever. Your choice. And if you chose to give in, you will be in charge. So I suggest you start excepting it."

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Lucy swung her paw at Ethan, and scratched his nose. He backed up and rubbed his nose with his paw.

'I will never join your pack! Or any pack for that matter!'

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'The only way you're going to touch anyone again, is going to be over my dead body!'

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Natsu stared at Lucy and noticed that her eyes were golden and she was ready to attack.

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'How do I know that I can trust you?'

Lucy asked.

'Because I am apart of you. Always have been, always will be.'

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'It's the way that the curse was made.'

"What curse?" Lucy questioned.

'That's a story for another time.'

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'Lucy, you weren't supposed to force me away!'

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"Hey guys I found something!" Levy yelled in excitement as she came out of the library. But her happiness faded when she saw that the Guild was not fighting each other but the enemy. The sudden noise that had been made, caused Lucy to whip her head in that direction. Lucy then charged at Levy.

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Lucy sank her teeth into Natsu's shoulder, making him scream out in pain.

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Lucy was talking to her friends about what had happened the night before and Levy's expression caught her attention. Her eyes were wide and she looked like she was scared.

"Levy are you okay? You're kind of quiet." Lucy asked as she walked forwards towards Levy. Levy took a step back, and Gajeel stood in front of her. And that is when I realized that Levy was scared. She was scared of Lucy. Lucy looked at everyone and saw that they all wore the same expression. They were all scared of her.

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"Where's Luce?" Natsu asked Master Makarov.

"She should be there by now." He said to himself.

"She should be where?" Gray asked him, as everyone turned to looked at their Master waiting for an answer.

"The Magic Council." He answered.

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"Lets go get Lucy."

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"What do you want Ethan?" Lucy demanded.

"You to suffer." Ethan answered.

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"But she could still go wild." Kyler said, looking at Lucy as she shook in pain.

"Exactly." Ethan said. "She's going to kill her friends."

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"Lucy, I don't want to die." Happy said as he started crying and Lucy cried harder.

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"You want something, you got to fight for it! You want to be in control then fight damn it!" Natsu screamed at Lucy, but she couldn't say anything. "I can't lose you."

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Lucy stepped out of the darkness with glowing gold eyes as she was once again a wolf. She took a few steps closer towards Natsu.

'Come on Luce, please.'

Lucy then lunged at him and wrapped her teeth around his neck.

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Then while Lucy stared at Ethan she lowered herself so that she was laying down on the stage.

"No." Natsu said and Lucy turned her head to look at him. And even though she couldn't speak to him, the look in her eyes told him exactly what was going to happen.

"Lu please don't." Levy said. Lucy looked at Levy and then looked behind her. Gajeel was on her other side and he nodded to Lucy, grabbed Levy's side, pulled on her, and dropped to the ground with her in his arms. She started crying harder and tried to fight Gajeel, but she was to weak to fight. They all were.

"Juvia." Gray said as he pulled on her arms.

"No." She said into Lucy's fur as she held on for dear life, and she too was crying. Gray then wrapped his arms around her and fell to his side with Juvia crying on his chest. Mira looked up at Lucy and gently lowered herself onto the ground in tears. Erza looked at Natsu and dropped to the ground.

"You guys can't be serious." Natsu said just under his breath. Then Lucy stood up with him still on her back and Happy on her tail.

"Lucy, please don't leave us." Happy said. Lucy then got ready to charge. Lucy then leaped off the stage, Mira and Erza grabbing Happy and Natsu at the last second.

"Lucy!" He cried. Erza held an arm around his chest as he tried to get up, but he to weak.

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'Let us go, Ethan.'

Lucy demanded.

'And why should I?'

'Why can't you? You have plenty of pack members. What is one less?'

'You mean two less.'

Ethan corrected her as he stared at his old omega.

'No, only one. Because you never had me.'

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'Is there anyway I can save you? Without me dying?'

'Unfortunately no.'

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'Lucy you should have given in.'

Kenia said as she stood in front of Lucy as a tall blonde wolf with golden eyes.

'Now Ethan is going to kill both of us.'

Lucy looked up at Kenia as a single tear fell.

"Help me." Lucy whispered.

'Lucy it's too late.'

"Please let me save them, and you can have control." Lucy told her.

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'Only for you, would I be so stupid.'

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"This is my Magic." Lucy said, hers and Kenia's voice echoing in the room. "And thanks to you, I can do so much more."

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'There's no way that you can be these Spirit's alpha!'

Ethan demanded.

'Says who?'

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And that was the moment that everyone's fights had ended, and they all turned to their Alpha's. Lucy then lifted her head and jerked her head and Ethan's downwards at an angle to fast that Ethan's couldn't follow. And Lucy snapped his neck.

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'We can't go back.'

Loke said.

'Why not?'

'Because you have bended the rules my old friend.'

A different voice said in their heads.

'Celestial Spirit King!'

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'I'm sacrificing myself to let Kenia live.'

Lucy said.

'Kenia? It has a name?'

Aquarius asked.

'Yes, and she will live, and I will no longer exist.'

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'Lucy, it's time.'

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"Lucy, please . . . . . . . don't leave me." Natsu whispered in his sleep. Lucy walked over to him and placed her hand on his cheek calming him down. Then she leaned down and place a kiss on his cheek.

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Lucy pulled two necklaces out of her pocket, one was a gold star and the other was a gold moon.

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Lucy broke out into a sprint as she started crying. Then she bent down turning into a wolf and ran into the trees. Running as fast as she could, her spirits joined her one last run.

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'Good- bye Lucy.'

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"She left you something too." Mira told Natsu, as she tried her hardest not to cry, pointing at Natsu's bed side table. He picked up the small box and opened it. Inside there was a little gold sun charm, attached to a long chain. He put it on, and felt that there was still something in the box. He then pulled out Lucy's key pouch. He opened it, to find all of her keys. But her Zodiac keys were dull, and looked as if they were starting to rust.

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"Everyone in Fairy Tail. I'm sorry that you had to find out like this. I am leaving, and wont be coming back. When I fought the Natives for the last time, I was told that the voice that I was hearing inside my head, wasn't a different side of me. But a different soul entirely. And when I was fighting the Natives, by myself while trying to keep the other soul at bay, I wasn't strong enough. And so I made a deal with the soul. That if it helped me save the one's I love, that it could have full control. And it took it. So now that I have moved on, to give someone else a chance to live. I want you to know that it was a honor to get the chance to meet and fight with all of you. I hope I will get another chance to do the same in my next life. Forever with love, Lucy Heartfilia."

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A blonde wolf stood still as it looked out over the town of Magnolia, and was accompanied by ten other wolves that stood behind her. The blonde wolf turned to the others that were patiently waiting for her, and she looked at her pack with gold eyes.