(Okay guys I'm so tired yet I'm updating because you all are amazing and I hate to leave cliffhangers for so long! So instead of me talking why don't you skip this and enjoy the chapter! Unless if you keep reading this then you really like reading! I bet that you're still reading this aren't you?! HAHA YOU ARE! Alright I'm done being stupid... I hope you enjoy the chapter of Torment because by golly poor Lucy...😖)

P.S you can start the song whenever. Almost had a heart attack at one moment in the song😂. Anywho, I don't own the song it rightfully belongs to Elfin Lied (an anime which I love btw) and I thought goes well for the chapter. Again sorry I disrupted!😭

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(Lucy's P.O.V)

I closely listened to the dark surrounding. The drip of water echoed the tiny room with the sound of my shackles clacking onto the wet cobble floors. It's been days...no I've been here for weeks. How long have I been here? I'm dehydrated so I must have been here for more than a a couple days total.

The door opened again to see Bolt walking in next to me. "So am I finally going to have a tour around this crappy place or just keeping counting the stones on the wall?" My throat was parched but held firmly to him. Bolt unhooked the shackles from the wall and began to drag me out of the room. "Is this what you do to your guests when they visit?!" I hoarsely yelled at Bolt that only remained calm from my insults to him and the Dark Ones.

The hallways were dark with the same stone walls and floors only to be lit by purple torched flames on the wall. "You Dark Ones really need to touch up the place! Geez why not some paintings of some more dark colors or maybe some rugs to help drag your enemies around!" I insulted to him.

We stopped by a door giving off a strange smell from it. "You don't know how badly I want to destroy your courage Light Goddess," Bolt said while clicking the door open with his hand. "but I'll let that wait when we begin your session."

The room only had a wooden chair with leather straps connected to it with the same purple light hanging over it. Bolt took my shackles off my wrists and forcefully put me into the chair and strapped my hands down to it. He then strapped my feet firmly in place with me knowing I'm not getting out of here. "Master Zelroth will be here in a minute with his utensils for your session. When we meet again I hope to see...'progress' on you." Bolt closed the door leaving me to sit and think about this session he's talking about. "I really don't want to know..." I said to myself aloud.

The door again opened with the first Dark One rolling in a cart that was to dark for me to see in. "I'm very sorry we couldn't start your session the second day you were here Lucy. I needed to take care some more business but now I'm finally able to see you again!" Zelroth set aside his katana on the wall and went back to the cart. "How long have I been here?" I asked rudely to him.

"In EarthLand you have only been gone for mere hours, but here you have been here for quite some time. Maybe months perhaps."

"What?! That's...that's impossible unless you have enough power to bend time for the realm." I shot back and was beginning to shake from this news. "Dear girl I made this realm. One day in EarthLand is a year in the Midnight Realm. So to them you'll only be gone for...let's say three days! But for you..."

"I would be gone for three years..." How's that possible? Have I aged these past months then? How am I even still alive if I haven't eaten or drank ever since coming here?! Zelroth held something in his hand making him look like he was measuring it with delicacy. "Have no fear girl. You still age just like you are on EarthLand; only difference is that your hair will grow longer as well your body. Only a couple inches though so it will still look like you haven't grown. Plus you're not dead already is because I'm the one making sure you're not. So your welcome." My mind was hurting from thinking to much about this. Zelroth turned back to me to be holding a syringe filled with brown and grey substance. "What's that?" Zelroth slowly strolled to me tapping on the glass of the syringe.

"Oh don't worry Light Goddess. This is only step one of your session from the other seven waiting. Now just relax and let this be quick." Zelroth was behind me and forced my head down to show my neck. "Stop! What are you doing!?"
I struggled from the restraints wanting to keep the needle away from me. "Your session...begins." The needle was stabbed into the back of my neck, injecting the liquid into my system. I was about to scream before my mind was becoming foggy and dizzy. My fingertips and toes were numbing with my muscles shutting down; making me become paralyze from it. The room was spinning giving me a funny feeling in my stomach from it. My body was no longer working.

"Fascinating! Only in a short thirty seconds your body has completely shut down on you! Remarkable timing on such a curse." A curse? How is that even possible?! "Now let's try the second one shall we?" Zelroth picked up he next syringe that looked filled with black liquid this time. "Let's see if you can feel anything even from the first curse. I must know all eight of my curses!" Zelroth injected this needle into my left arm this time.

Horrible blisters that held dark substance beneath my skin was popping up from my arm giving off excruciating burning sensations from it. I wanted to yell and cry from the pain, but my body wouldn't move on my command no matter what I did. "Damn. Not a single reaction from you, but I do admit this poison does look like it could impact quite unpleasant pain to the host. I'll continue working on this curse." So I was injected with poison. Well that's nice to know...

"I think I'm ready for the third one! Are you...I didn't hear a no so you must be!" The next syringe had orange-yellow liquid filled in it. "Let's see if this works shall we!" The needle entered into my stomach with pain immediately in my lower chest to my stomach. "If you don't know what this is Lucy, this curse will shut down your organs from digesting food or the need of having water! So this will basically let you no longer know if you're starving or not. It's not that bad of a curse!" The pain subsided with my growling stomach no longer telling me I'm in need for food.

"My it's been hours hasn't it! One more curse for today won't kill you...at least I hope not!" The fourth one was violet purple liquid that seemed to glow if you inspect closely. "Now I need you to open your eyes dear! This is a Hallucination Curse so if you don't want it to be injected straight into your brain, then please keep your eyes open for it not to hurt worse." I couldn't even close my eyes if I wanted to. My body feels dead with a living soul in it. Zelroth put three drops of the substance into each of my eyes with each on making the area even darker than before. "This seems to be my favorite one so far. I'm done for the day Lucy. My followers will now have their share of fun with you now so please don't worry about being alone. I'll see you soon my dear." Zelroth pushed the cart in the corner of the room and left the room.

My mind wandered into the darkness from the fourth needle. The world felt lighter without the hold of gravity of taking me down. I was floating into nowhere without the need for wanting to go back, but why would I go back? Who would want me?

"Wake up Light Goddess! I don't want the prisoner to be sleeping while I have my share of entertainment!" Selena was in front of me, holding a whip that had nails attached to the end of it where it would hit me. My head was still foggy and very hard to even concentrate on what she's talking about. "I guess the only thing I can do it wake you up!" She screamed while whipping and slashing into my side, creating deep slash marks from the nails that dug into my skin. I whimpered from feeling the pain and wanting it all to stop. "Oh come on Lucy! I know you have more to scream than that!" Selena whipped me over again and again with the walls becoming stained by this treatment.

"Well I'm bored now. We'll have to do that again but only to hear you scream bloody murder, which I might decide to do..." Selena sashayed out to leave me with the hallucinations growing inside of me. "N-no...I won't...let it get to...me!" The screams of my friends were heard seconds later.

"LUCY!!! HELP US!"

"LUCY-SAN! SAVE US~"

"LUCY-NEE!!! IT HURTS!"

"LU-SHEEEEE~"

"LUCE! PLEASE STOP THIS TORTURE! PLEASE!!!!"

"STOP THIS PAIN LUCY! END IT~!!!"

I could only cry from hearing the agonizing screams of my nakamas. "Minna...forgive me..." My tears wouldn't stop. The torture inflicted on me was far from being worse than to hear my family plead for my help. I struggled to try and free myself from their leather straps. I continued to cry even when Nash came in. "This is music to my ears! Your poor friends are dying and you can't do a single thing about it! You really don't care about them huh!" Nash roared with laughter while I kept bawling for my comrades.

The pain in my heart throbbed bringing me to sleep by force. The nightmares I escaped once will return for only being here for a day.

No...

For being here in the Midnight Realm for a year...

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(So tired....must sleep....I'm sorry if this sucks like all my chapters do. I hope you enjoyed this sucky chapter and leave a comment how stupid this chapter was. Again, so so so so so so sorry if you didn't like it. As always guys... LOVE YOU ALL!❤️)