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Erza knew that she was close. Natsu confirmed it for her. Lucy's scent was close. But Natsu said that there was another person with her, a nasty scent. This made Erza more determined to reach Lucy and save her from whoever is with her.

Then there was an explosion in front of them, followed by an obnoxious voice.

"You shall go no further." A person appeared in front of the mages.

"Move or your head will be off." Erza summoned two swords and glared at the man.

The man only smirked before two more men joined next to him. "I am what they call Kragen. These men are Maxium and Drace." Kragen pointed to the men besides him. "And we will not move."

"I could care less about who you are. You will move aside, or I will not hesitate to kill you." Erza boomed, intimidating the men before her in the process.

Kragen knew who Erza was, and he did not want to face her, knowing how powerful she is. Plus the pink haired boy, the Salamander is just as powerful as she is. "Maxium. Drace. One of you take care of Erza and Salamander. I'll take care of the naked man."

The naked man, otherwise known as Gray exclaimed in rage. "I'm not naked. I'm just shirtless!"

Erza was becoming even more enraged and impatient. She should not be wasting her time with these men. "Where's Lucy?"

"Who?" Kragen smirked.

Erza narrowed her eyes in anger. "Tell me. Or your life will end by my blade."

"You mean Lucy...that blonde girl?" Kragen smirked when Erza twitched in anger. "Let's just say that she's helping us to destroy all life on Earthland."

"Lucy would never do that!" Natsu roared, jumping toward Kragen.

"Lucy will never help you!" Gray exclaimed.

Kragen laughed. "Tell me that when she's not. Because at this very moment, Lucy is undergoing a ceremony that will unleash destruction."

"If anything, you're forcing her." Erza spat.

Kragen tilted his head as if in thought. "Could be, or not."

Then a loud scream was heard deeper in the woods, and Erza knew who it belonged to. She shouldn't be wasting her time here. "Natsu. Gray. I'm going ahead. Keep these guys busy."

"Finally, a fight!" Natsu shivered with excitement.

Gray made his fighting stance. "Bring her back, Erza."

Erza dashed forward, ignoring the words from the enemy and made a mad dash into the woods, following the voice from earlier. As she got closer and closer, she could feel an ominous feeling, a negative magic. Must be where Lucy is.

...

Lucy has to do something, to stop Raven from whatever she's doing, what's her plan and why.

"Raven. Why are you doing this?" Lucy croaked, trying to ignore the stabbing pain where the sword was impaled.

Raven looks at her with a smirk. "Why?"

Lucy wheezed in response. "Because you're better than this. What made you do this?" Lucy needed to do something, to slow her down. She could take the sword out...but she has to distract her somehow.

Raven studies her. "The ceremony takes a while once it starts." Raven muttered to herself. "Fine. I do need something to pass the time."

Lucy mentally pumped her fists. Hopefully Raven will be distracted, and not notice Lucy trying to remove the sword on her back.

10 minutes later, Lucy was not impressed with her story. Something about revenge against the council for hunting her and her family for the magic they possess...dark magic or something like that.

She was getting impatient, waiting for the right time when Raven was not looking.

Another minute and Lucy saw that Raven was in her little world...taking a deep breath, she snakes her hands to her back and desperately grabs the sword out of her.

Touching a cold metal, Lucy made sure that she had a strong grip of the sword, wanting to get it out in one go. But before she could even try to yank it out, a sharp, pain was felt in both of her hands, causing her to scream bloody murder.

Two knifes had embedded themselves in Lucy's hand, and blood was gushing out, fast.

"Heh." Raven smirked as she knelt in front of her. "I knew you were up to something. But that was utterly pathetic. Even with the magic I had taught you, you are still utterly weak."

Tears was forming in Lucy's eyes from the pain in her hands and back. Magic...how could I forgotten. I can use it...to escape or try to stop Raven

"You won't get away with this." Lucy rasped, trying to numb her pain by breathing hard.

"Don't worry sweetie. I already did." Raven grinned from ear to ear.

Lucy had lost a great deal of blood already. It's a miracle that she's still alive...how is she still alive? The spell on the sword impaling her back?

Light was becoming dimmer and dimmer, Raven's voice fading into the background, becoming soaked in her own blood.

Raven saw Lucy fading away and smirked. "The ceremony's about done, but I still want you alive and see the destruction that you helped."

Raven proceeded and placed another of the same spell on the swords impaling Lucy's hand, 'Upgrade: No blood loss.' Raven can't have Lucy dying on her, or passing out. She wants Lucy to see the destruction she caused.

"I want you to stay awake, so don't fall asleep on me." Raven made a big grinned when Lucy gave her a look of anger. "That's the look I like." Raven laughed.

Lucy hated her now...hated her for the fact that she lied, that she faked it...how she had faked everything...and she fell for it. Raven's right. I'm still weak. But I can still do something...

Magic...Lucy can still use her magic...but she's too drained...she doesn't have enough magic. But she must do something.

"Lucy!" A voice called out from deep in the words.

Raven and Lucy snapped their heads at the source, and soon later, a familiar redhead appeared with rage in her eyes.

When Erza sees Lucy with swords and knife embedded in her, she snapped. "Lucy!"

"Erza!" Lucy wheezed, glad to see a familiar friend.

Raven was not happy. She ordered his henchmen to keep these mages away, so she can continue her ceremony in peace, even if she was almost there... "Guess I will have to take care of you myself."

Lucy panicked. Erza does not know what Raven is capable of. She's powerful and scary. Raven could probably kill Erza within seconds...She couldn't let that happen.

Luckily for Lucy, Raven was standing next to her...so she could try something.

...

"Ok, I have to run some errands, so I will be gone for a few hours." Raven smiled as she handed Lucy a book. "This book has some...dangerous spells that I had come across with the magic I had taught you. You might want to study up on it, and surely, it will expand your magic reserve."

Lucy takes the book and looks at the cover. It was completely black leathered with no words, and it was about 100 pages thick.

"Dangerous spells? Wouldn't it be wiser for me not to know it?" Lucy asks.

Raven gotta hand it to Lucy for being smart. "Yes, it would be wise. But these spells in that book are spells that can kill someone, and cause a destruction that can level a city. But you can use these spells to protect someone else."

Lucy thought about it for a moment, recalling the dangerous time when she was still a Fairy Tail mage. "Alright. I'll check them out."

Raven smiled and smirked a little before turning and leaving to do her errand.

Lucy was soon left on her own with the book in hand. She proceeds by sitting down and reading the first page.

10 minutes later, Lucy was overwhelmed. These spells are certainly dangerous and powerful depending on the castor.

There was one spell that stood out the most to her. Upgrade: Dark explosion. This spell can be casted on living things as well as inanimate objects. It takes away the positive magical particles that resides within the target and trade it for the negative magical particles. The result of this spell can destroy the life of the target. If used wrong, it can also affect the castor as well.

Lucy wanted to try it, to see exactly what it does. So she walks to a random rock and tries the spell.

Taking a deep breath, she places her hand on the rock, "Upgrade: Dark Explosion'

Nothing happened.

A little frustrated, she tried again, succeeding this time, coursing a dark magic spell onto the rock, a light encasing the rock, expanding and engulfing her in the process. After the light died down, the rock disappeared.

Lucy blinked. She wondered what would happen to living things...Lucy swore that she doesn't want to know.

...

Lucy laid on the blood-soaked ground, debating if she should use that spell on Raven or not. Raven turns out to be evil. She wants to destroy the world. Why am I even debating about this!?

Lucy reached out and grabs Raven by the leg and immediately begun her spell: Upgrade: Dark Explosion. Lucy took another glance at Erza, who was currently running towards them. Thanks Erza, You provided the perfect diversion for me to perform the spell.

...

When Erza arrived at the clearing, and seeing swords stuck in Lucy, and a woman next to her with a nasty grin, she wanted to rain hell on the one responsible.

"Lucy!" Erza called out, wanting to know is she was still alive.

When Erza saw movement, she swore that Lucy was up to something. She watches as Lucy grabs the woman's leg that was standing next to her and said something. She could not hear it clearly, but she knew it was a spell and had a bad feeling about it.

Erza sees something, Lucy was doing something that was making Erza tensed. She sees that the woman was staggered by what Lucy was about to do and sees that she was about to attack Lucy.

Not on her watch, Erza swore that she would save Lucy. She ran forward, swords in hand, aimed directly at the woman who was now attentive to Erza who was running at her with rage.

But it was too late as Lucy had already casted her spell. Erza was meters away before she could do anything as woman started to writhe in agony.

Erza stopped in her tracks, only couple of meters away, seeing that the woman standing was being encased in dark magic. It was like she was dipped into black ink.

Then a bright light expanded from the woman and a scream was heard. Erza couldn't tell if it was Lucy's or the woman's.

"Lucy!" Erza called out, hoping that she was trying not to take herself out as well. Lucy has a habit of doing that sometimes.

The light then expanded, engulfing the woman completely, then Lucy, then engulfing Erza in a bright light. Erza had to cover her eyes from the bright lights.

Couple seconds later, and the light died down and Erza had to blink couple of times to regain her sights. She sees Lucy in the same position, but she seemed unconscious, hopefully still alive. And the woman...she seemed shriveled up...similar to the result that had happened to Master Jose of Phantom when he was exposed to Fairy Law. But she wasn't moving...

Erza cautiously steps forward, with raised swords, making sure that the woman was down for the count. She knelt in front of the woman and felt her pulse.

She was gone.

Hastily, Erza moves to Lucy, who was still unconscious.

"Lucy." Erza whispered as she dropped her sword and checked her injuries.

A sword impaling her back, and who knifes stuck in both of her hands, lost a lot of blood...Erza needs to take Lucy to a hospital. It would be unwise to take the sword out...otherwise she would bleed to death.

Erza swear to god that she would make sure that Lucy lives.

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