A/N What will my life become after this story is over. XOXO ~ Vi

Third Person POV

"My, my... fallen asleep have we?" Three torturous hours after Lucy's seemingly endless pain, the man cloaked in black had returned.
Only to see that his victim had dozed off, perhaps that had been why those delectable screams stopped.
Ah well.. she'll be wide awake soon enough.
Another silhouette entered the dim cell.
This person, was clothed in complete porcelain-white. The two stood next to each other, looking at Lucy Heartfilia.
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"Natsu!" Lucy shot immediately out of bed. Sweatdrops rolled down her cheeks, her eyes pleaded for her companion.
"Mhm..." A mumble came from the spot beside her. She glanced to the side.
Natsu and Happy were happily snoozing under the comfort of her covers; completely engulfed in the pillowy blanket, aside from their heads which were turned in the opposite direction of Lucy.
A sigh of relief escaped her lips. "It really was just a nightmare."
A horrible one. Thank goodness.
Lucy considered waking the duo sleeping next to her, however she was quite disturbed by their unmoving forms.

They'd at least be snoring, or Natsu would be cuddling against her pillow.
Lucy placed a hand against Natsu's forehead, to her horror, it was not the comforting warmth she had grown so used to; instead, chilling cold spread to her palm.
She shakily turned Natsu's face over to her.
He was pale.
Thinking the worst, she immediately lifted him, only to feel some sort of substance cover her hand.

Lifting her hand slowly, she didn't even gasp or show any sort of shock whatsoever when she discovered the substance was blood.
Natsu's blood.
She knew it in the back of her mind; false hope kept her from breaking down.
Her attention now laid on the 'sleeping' Exceed.
Blood was on the back of his head.
Lucy shut her eyes tightly. It was just a nightmare. It was just a nightmare. It was just another nightmare. She would close her eyes; Natsu and Happy would be well and alive and everything would be okay. Everything would be okay.

Her mind was now frantic.
She opened her eyes. No longer in her blood-stained bed, she was in the Fairy Tail Guild Hall.
Once more, blood was everywhere. Cana, Mirajane, Erza, Levy, Evergreen, Bisca, Laki, Juvia.
Jet, Droy, Gajeel, Gray, Elfman, Alzack, Wakaba, Macao, even little Romeo.
Not a single Fairy was spared. Dismembered arms, severed legs laid throughout.

A severed head laid a couple of feet away from her, bones peeking through the peeling skin.
It was disgusting. Lucy wanted to vomit and sob at the same time.
Her friends had died, all of them.
A small cough soon turned to violent hacking fits; the source- or sources were none other than Happy and Natsu.
Lucy had never run faster in her life.
She placed Natsu's head on her lap and held Happy protectively in her arms.
They were both alive. They were alive. They were alive..
However, Lucy couldn't feel the slightest bit relieved. Everyone was still dead.
Their pulses faded quickly. Lucy's eyes widened in terror, they were paling, and fast.

The both of them died in her arms.
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"No!" The hoarse shriek of absolute alarm and panic bounced against the walls of her cell.
Lucy panted, her breaths her short and quick.
Her eyes were still wide, sweatbeads rolled down her face.
Then, she tried her hardest to focus her eyes without light to help. She could eventually make out two figures standing close in proximity to both each other and her.
"Aw.. that's too bad... I wanted to play further!" One of them exclaimed in a pout.
"Now, now... we shall have an abundance of time for that later, alright my dear Usagi?" The man from before smiled degradingly at Lucy, changing his facial expression to a somewhat content look as he looked towards his comrade.

"Well, alright, Hotaru.." She gave him a gentle kiss upon his cheek.
"Perhaps we should ask our guest how she would like to be tortured. You will tell me how to get the Lumen Histoire."
Lucy scowled weakly at them. "I don't.. even know what that.. is."
The woman in white, whom Lucy now knew as 'Usagi' scoffed, "Sure you don't."
"I don't.. and if, I did.. I wouldn't tell you," Lucy glared with everything she had,"my heart belongs to Fairy Tail.. I'd never betray them like that!"
"Oh please... they betrayed you, didn't they?" Usagi chuckled lightly; her hand covered her mouth, "sorry, it's just so.. funny."

Lucy bit back a choked sound of defeat as the man tightened her shackles.
A ghost-like sense made the hairs on the back of her neck stand up straight.
A knife, with the ends wispy and flickering, appeared in Hotaru's grasp.
"Shadows are so beautifully dark," He stated, Usagi created a luminous ball of light in her hand, revealing the knife created from shadows in Hotaru's hold, "but sometimes they need a bit of light to shine."
Whether he was referring to Lucy's Celestial Magic or Usagi's literal light, was unknown.
Next thing she knew, the knife had pierced the skin of her arm, sure to leave a scar, along with dried blood.

But at the time, Lucy's mind wasn't exactly functioning properly. The months of mental hurt and the physical damage she had recently gone though numbed the pain considerably.
She flinched, but no cries escaped her.
"Tch, nothing?" Hotaru clicked his teeth in an irrate way.
"Well, we can always torment her dreams again.." Usagi offered, sliding her arm around his free one.
"No. I have want her awake to feel it."
"We could always poison her.. perhaps some long-lasting torture spells?"

With a flick of her hand, Usagi would've immediately brought Lucy to her knees, had she not been chained up.
"Enjoy this.. Lucy Heartfilia, for this is simply a mere fraction of what you will be experiencing from now on." Hotaru snickered, his head held high.
"And don't go thinking anyone will come save you.. they all despise you, remember?" Usagi smiled, giving the illusion of a gentle demeanor. Lucy knew much better than that, though.
They turned, exposed of the light, leaving Lucy to her dim cell once again.
She could feel the effects of Usagi's spell, whatever it was.. it drained her of what magic power she had left. Her body went limp, but not unconscious, oh no.. they wouldn't allow for that.

With blood running down her arm, very few thoughts crossed her exhausted and beaten mind.
1) Natsu Dragneel, Happy, Levy, every single mage of Fairy Tail, absolutely hated her. They would not help.
and
2) What she'd gone though.. was only day one. She would not survive.

A/N I'm so sorry, I haven't updated in like two weeks! >~< And thank you if you're still reading~! /)^-^/) XOXO ~ Vi