Angel was not happy, not one bit.
"Flare, your boyfriend's on the boxing team right?" Angel asked her friend.
Flare swallowed the granola bar she was chewing and nodded.
"Yeah, why?" she asked.
"Just a little back up in case the three of us can't handle her" Angel smirked.
"By her you mean Heartfilia?" Mary asked.
"Of course, who else would I be talking about?!" Angel yelled.
"Well last week you hated that Jane girl and the week before that you hated -" Mary said listing the names that came from the top of her head.
"IT WAS MEANT TO BE A RHETORICAL QUESTION MARY!" Angel yelled.
"Angel, he has a match after school. Your going to have to wait till tomorrow if you want his help" Flare said ignoring her two friends spat.
"Tomorrow it is then, that just means I have more time to embarrass Lucy" Angel smiled.
Just you wait Lucy, tomorrow your going to regret ever messing with me she thought.
"No one's heard anything yet Luce, who ever did it must have done it before school or maybe late last night because no one's seen anyone put the flyers us" Bora told her friend.
Lucy only nodded.
"Don't worry though, we'll figure out who did it soon even if it means I have to pull out my ace in the hole" Bora said.
Lucy raised an eyebrow at him. "Ace in the hole?" she repeated.
"Yup that's when our gang takes over the school and we personally interrogate every single student until we find out who did it" Bora said.
Lucy laughed. "Were not that desperate Bora" she said.
"True, true but just give the word and I'll put that plan into action" he said.
"Whatever" Lucy said.
The bell then rang, informing the students that school was finally over. Lucy walked out with her usual sidekick and straight towards Natsu, who was leaning against the lockers like always with a big smile on his face.
"Hey Lucy, I kind of got bad news" Natsu started.
Lucy only stared.
"I made plans with our friends after school today so I can't walk you home but, your welcome to join us" Natsu said.
Lucy turned and started walking away.
"I knew you'd do that" Natsu said walking with her.
"I may not be able to walk you all the way home but I can at least walk you to the gate" he said.
On the way to the gate though Natsu, Lucy, and Wendy happened to run into Natsu's group. Lucy studied them, they all seemed to have stacks of paper in their hands.
"Hey Lucy" Levy called out walking to her.
"You don't have to worry about the flyers anymore, we took them all down, I think" she said.
So the stacks of paper were the flyers about her.
"Yeah and no worries about the rumors, we stopped them" Erza said smiling at her.
"We still haven't found the culprit though" Jellal mumbled.
"We'll start looking out for you" Gajeel said.
The group was surrounding her, all of them trying to give her some words of comfort. Even Lisanna said something to her.
"I'm working on who did this in the first place, I should have answers by tomorrow" Lisanna said.
The flashbacks came rushing into Lucy's head. Every moment she had with her Mother, sad and happy, replayed in her head; Lucy felt an anxiety attack coming. She tried to fend it off, she couldn't freak out in front of them. She just needed to get away then she would feel better, but something was different this time. No matter how much she tried or how badly she treated them, her old friends still liked her, they still cared. Lucy felt that they at least deserved something, even if it was false hope. The memories awoken something in her, something she's locked away ever since her Mother passed away. Lucy looked at them and smiled.
"Thank you, but I can take it from here. No need to waste your time on someone like me" Lucy said then walked off.
Her friends stood there. Lucy had smiled at them, Lucy had thanked them. Her smile, it wasn't like the usually ones, this one was different. This one was real. This one was the little Lucy's smile from long ago.
"Seems she's warming up to us now" Natsu said watching his girlfriend leave.
Natsu was only half right.
"Lucy nee-san are you okay?" Wendy asked.
"Just give me a moment" Lucy said. She was bent down with her head between her legs.
No matter how strong anyone was, everyone had a weakness. Lucy's just happened to be her memories, or to be more precise her memories about her Mother. But having a weakness doesn't make you weaker, sometimes it gives you the boost you need to get stronger. This wasn't the case for Lucy right now, she was a fragile little girl just like Wendy at the moment. With a shaky hand she reached for a cigarette, lit it and took her first hit of the day. As the smoke filled her lungs, Lucy calmed down.
"Let's get going" she said standing up.
Wendy watched the smoke clouds fly up into the air. She stared at her protector with worry eyes but still followed her home.
Lucy missed half her classes the next day. To say Angel was pissed was an understatement. She was so happy to see her lunch though, her plans could fall back into action. Lucy felt pathetic, cowering away under the blankets this morning. She decided to face her fears and sit at Natsu's table for lunch. She ignored everyone who tried to make a conversation with her however by pretending to be asleep. Even ignored, her old friends were still glad that she had joined them. Lucy didn't feel on edge as she did yesterday, maybe that was because she wasn't staring at her friends even though she knew they were right next to her. Lucy considered it an improvement, even if it was just by a little.
Then it happened. Food was splattered all over Lucy. Her head went up and she turned around to stare at the culprit. Mary hated the idea, she didn't understand why Angel had made her do it and not Flare or herself. It was so unlady like to trip and fall, even if it wasn't on purpose. Angel expected the lunch area to laugh when they saw Lucy covered in food but it didn't happen. Angel had to bite her lips to prevent her own laughter from surfacing. The exact opposite happened, the lunch area went dead silent. Why? Because Lucy Heartfilia was about to murder somebody.
Lucy wiped the spilled juice that was dripping down from her hair with the back of her palm. She brought her a finger to her mouth to taste it. Grape soda. Lucy hated grape soda. She stood from her seat, the food that landed on her slipping down her back, and turned towards Mary. Lucy didn't recognize the girl but judging by the fear in her eyes, she recognized her. Lucy grabbed Mary's collar and lifted her up into the air, her feet barely touching the ground.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! It was an accident!" Mary cried out.
"Lucy she only tripped put her down" her boyfriend reasoned.
Why should Lucy listen to any of them? Back in the day anyone who messed with Lucy had to face the consequences, accident or on purpose. Why should she let this girl get away?
"This may hurt a lot" Lucy warned the girl making her intentions clear.
Mary started to cry, fearing the worst. No one could stop Lucy, not her boyfriend, not her old friends, not her kid, even though she didn't want to stop her protector anyway, but maybe Bora could. He walked up to Lucy and placed his hand on her arm, making her lower Mary.
"One good reason" Lucy said to him.
"I don't have one" Bora said.
"You know me" Lucy said.
"I knew you in the past, this time it's different" Bora told her.
"How?" she asked him.
"Your better now, besides I thought you liked spaghetti" Bora said picking a stray noodle from her hair.
Lucy gave him a small smile and dropped Mary.
"Good girl now let's go find you a spare uniform" Bora said.
"If you ever come into my line of sight, run or else I will rearrange your whole face" Lucy threatened Mary before walking away with Bora.
Wendy had gotten up and ran with them. Mary ran as fast as she could towards Angel and yelled at her. Natsu's group was silent for a while even though the other conversations in the lunch area returned.
"She might even be more scaring than you Erza" Gajeel said.
Erza turned to Gajeel and punched him in the shoulder. Natsu just sat there. What was the difference between him and Bora? Why did Lucy listen to Bora and not him? Natsu was her boyfriend, that was suppose to exceed best friend yet here he was powerless to stop her. It just showed that Bora still knew Lucy better than Natsu.
"Natsu maybe you should go check on Lucy" Gray said.
"She has Bora, I'll see her fifth" Natsu responded.
Levy smacked Natsu on the shoulder as hard as she could.
"No you'll see her now! We all will! Lucy needs our support" Levy said.
Just then Lisanna's phone started ringing. She received a text from a friend of hers. Lisanna opened the message and scanned through it, re-reading twice to see if she got the facts right.
"Guys I found out who started the rumor, it was Flare and Mary" Lisanna said.
"Don't they follow Angel around everywhere?" Erza asked.
"Wasn't that Mary who just spilled food all over Lucy?" Juvia asked.
Natsu forgot about his pity party and focused on his friends. They found out who the culprits were, now all that was left to do was find them.
"Why are they after Lucy?" Natsu asked.
"Don't know but why don't we pay them a visit and find out?" Lisanna asked standing up.
"Um is Angel a bright blond?" Gajeel asked.
"Yeah why?" Lisanna said.
"Because I just saw Mary walk over to a bright blond then leave walking where Lucy just left" Gajeel said.
"Shit we gotta go, now!" Erza said.
"I think I have a spare uniform in my locker" Bora said.
"I'm going to go to the restroom and try washing the juice out from my hair" Lucy said.
"Why don't you just use the showers in the locker rooms?" Bora asked.
"I rather wait till lunch is over and everyone's back in their classes. Until then I'm going to the restroom" Lucy said.
"Alright I'll be right back then" Bora said before walking off.
Lucy walked over to the ladies restroom and turned on the faucet. She proceeded to wash her face then wet her bangs and part of her hair so juice wouldn't be dripping down from it any more. Wendy pulled out a handkerchief and offered it to her protector. Lucy smiled and took it from her, wiping her face dry. She didn't bother wetting her clothes and just walked out; she'd have Supetto wash them, better yet Bora. Angel was waiting outside for her.
"Hello Lucy" Angel called out.
Lucy stared at her for two seconds, realizing she didn't know her, before turning away.
"Aw are you still sour about the lunch incident? I thought it was quite hilarious" Angel said.
Lucy paused in mid-step. Wendy started glaring at the tall lady.
"So this is your little bastard, who was the Father again? Bora or Jellal? You fuck too many people Lucy you can't even tell whose the Father" Angel said.
Angel was confident. She knew there was no chance Lucy was going to win. Her overconfidence blinded her. Lucy turned and stared at the girl.
"Your stepping on dangerous grounds" she warned.
"Really? I thought I was already on dangerous grounds, I mean with the rumors and the flyers and trying to lock you up on the rooftop. If that's not on dangerous grounds then what is?" Angel asked then giggled to herself.
"That was you?" Lucy asked.
"Yup! And you had no idea! That's what makes it so funny!" Angel said.
Lucy had the funny feeling that the woman talking to her knew her, like KNEW her.
"Do I know you?" Lucy asked.
This stopped Angel's laughter.
"See that is what pisses me off most about you, how you think your so tough and act all high and mighty! You don't remember me? Well I sure as remember you Lucy Heartfilia! Nevertheless how about I help you, my name is Angel Storm remember me now?" Angel asked.
Lucy shook her head. She had no idea who this girl was and she didn't want to know. She seemed like a crazy bitch, so Lucy took pity on her and walked away. There was no point of getting her hands dirty fighting some psycho bitch.
"Oh look at you, running scared" Angel said walking after Lucy.
Angel's outbursts started gathering a crowd. It was a small one though, most of them was just wondering what was happening between the two of them.
"I don't have time to waste on you" Lucy said.
Wendy backed her up by sticking her tongue out at Angel.
"That's my line! I don't have time to wasting on a murdering whore like yourself" Angel said.
Lucy still ignored her.
"I'm mean you have to be pretty fucked up to kill your own Mother!" Angel yelled.
This stopped Lucy dead in her tracks. Her blood starting to boil while she repeated what Angel said in her mind over again.
I'm mean you have to be pretty fucked up to kill your own Mother!
I'm mean you have to be pretty fucked up to kill your own Mother!
I'm mean you have to be pretty fucked up to kill your own Mother!
-pretty fucked up to kill your own Mother!
-pretty fucked up to kill your own Mother!
-kill your own Mother!
Very slowly she cocked her head to the side and faced Angel.
Wendy was scared. She's seen Lucy mad but, from what Supetto-oba said, talking about her protector's Mother was worse. Wendy shakily back away from her protector. That was a smart move.
"Could you repeat that?" Lucy asked.
She wanted to be sure Angel actually said that before she kicked her ass.
"I said you have to be pretty fucked up to kill you own Mother Heartfilia" Angel said.
Lucy studied the girl standing in front of her and finally remembered her. Lucy hadn't immediately dropped all her friends when she learned her Mother was sick; she still kept them until her she had died. Angel Storm was her name, and she used to be one of Lucy's closet friends. Lucy was a naive child when she was younger, she couldn't tell when she was being used. When she entered her new school her worst fear was being alone.
Angel was the one who talked to her, she was the first one who tried to be her friend. Lucy was the new kid, she was just happy someone wanted to be friends with her. It wasn't till the death of her Mother that Lucy realized the truth. She put two and two together and dropped Angel like a ton of bricks.
"Angel" Lucy said.
Angel smirked. "Seems like you remember me now. Good! I mean I wouldn't feel the satisfactory of beating your ass if you didn't remember me. Now I can enjoy it to the fullest" she said.
"In all honesty I don't give a fuck about what I did to you. I don't care what you say about me, or my friends, or that brat. I just want you to know the only reason I'm about to kick you ass is because you talked about my Mother" Lucy said.
"You kick my ass?! You may have been able to kick your Mother's but that was only because she was all old and crusty! Me on the other hand I-" Angel didn't get to finish.
Lucy grabbed Angel by the hair in mid-sentence and slammed her face into the locker. The fight had begun. Lucy repeated the process several times until she saw blood running down her head, from where Lucy couldn't tell.
"Hurts doesn't it? I'm barely getting started" Lucy told her and laughed menacingly.
Angel was over confident. If she actually asked around and took the time to learn about Lucy she would have learned she changed. Lucy was a bad ass now.
Angel didn't stand a chance.
More students started swarming them chanting 'fight!' over and over again. Not one of them tried to stop it. Wendy was pushed back into the crowds. She got scared and started crying as she was being pushed around. Where was her Nii-san? Couldn't he tell that Nee-san needed help? Natsu's gang was hadn't noticed the fight yet. They were heading in the wrong direction.
"What's this? You don't have anything to say now Angel?" Lucy asked slamming her head in the lockers one more time before letting her drop on the floor.
Lucy walked over Angel and circled her. There a blood stain left on the lockers Angel's head was previously getting smashed at. Angel started whimpering, holding her hand against her head. Lucy stood over Angel and placed a foot on her. She raised it up and stomped down, she raised it again and repeated over and over again laughing the whole time. Lucy Heartfilia was enjoying herself.
"Shit! Angel's getting her ass whooped! Go out there Dante do something" Flare said pushing her boyfriend.
Dante ran up and slammed Lucy into a locker, his buddies surrounding her. The all looked over her with hungry eyes, Dante may have a girlfriend but they didn't. If she still looked pretty enough after they beat her, they might get to have a little 'fun' later. Lucy counted the men, 3 including Dante. She could take them.
"That wasn't the wises thing to do" Dante told her.
"Neither was interrupting my fun" Lucy smirked.
Just then Bora had entered the fight; he tackled Dante off of Lucy along with his friends surrounding her. Bora had retrieved the spare uniform but saw that a fight was going on. He was planning to make a little detour to see who was fighting then return back but realized it was Lucy once he heard her laughter. Lucy only laughed like that for once reason.
"Who did it?" Bora asked.
Lucy giggled and pointed to the girl on the floor, Flare and Mary was trying to help their friend up.
"I got your back" Bora said turning towards Angel.
Lucy only giggled again before walking towards the three girls.
"I thought I told you to run when you saw me" Lucy said kicking Mary in the face.
She fell backwards and cried out.
"And you... I don't really know you but whatever" Lucy giggled and before kicking her away too.
As the two girls crawled away Lucy bent down to pick up Angel.
"You should have stayed away from me" Lucy sang.
She placed her finger under Angel's chin and lifted it so Angel would be staring at her.
"Now guess what? I'm going to beat your friends using you!" Lucy yelled.
She picked up Angel and threw her towards Dante. It was lucky for Lucy that Angel only weighted around 100 pounds or else should would have had trouble pulling off a move like that.
She landed on Dante and they both fell over. Bora was currently fist fighting one of Dante's friends. He hadn't notice the other friend come behind him but Lucy saw and kicked him in the balls. The friend toppled over in pain.
"Thanks" Bora said before dodging another hit.
Lucy shrugged and made her way back to Angel.
"HELP! NII-SAN! ANYONE! HELP!" Wendy cried out but everyone ignored her.
They were too focused on the fight, it was much more interesting for them then a little girl crying. Natsu had heard her cry though. It was faint but he still heard it and turned back around.
"Why is this place so deserted?" Natsu asked.
His friends looked around noticing no one was there. Their eyes caught two students running however.
"After them, I think something's happening" Erza said.
They gang ran after the students and soon they saw it. The huge crowd in the middle of the hall way and little Wendy crying on the floor.
"WENDY!" Natsu yelled out.
Wendy looked up through her tear stained eyes.
"Help her! Nii-san!" Wendy cried out.
Natsu's group ran towards the crowd and tried their best to make there way through.
"Beg Angel! I want to hear you cower and grovel before me!" Lucy yelled.
She had a sadistic smile on her face while she continued kicking Angel. How Angel was still conscious after the beating Lucy gave her, Lucy didn't know or care. She just wanted to hear her pain.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" Angel cried out.
"Why are you apologizing? I said beg! Don't tell me you can't even to that!" Lucy said kicking the girl harder this time.
"LUCY!" Natsu yelled out.
Lucy looked away for one split second but that was enough for Dante to land a decent hit on her. Lucy staggered back and leaned against the lockers for support. She licked the blood off of her lips and smiled at Dante.
"My turn" she giggled and punched him back. Lucy's did way more damage.
Natsu was scared. This couldn't have been his Lucy. She was having too much fun kicking these people. Her smile was way to demonic and her laughter was pure evil. Why wasn't anyone stopping them? Why hasn't anyone noticed this fight going on? Simple because the fight has only been going for a few minutes. And in those few minutes Bora and Lucy has manage to completely destroy their enemies.
"I'm all finished up over here how about you Luce?" Bora asking dropping his enemy.
"I'm teaching Angel here how to beg for her life, so far she's not doing so well" Lucy said then kicked her again.
"Lucy stop it!" Jellal yelled.
He was the first of his friends to react; he was the first in the whole crowd to try and stop the fight. Jellal ran up, grabbed her arm and tugged. Lucy, not being her total sane self, ignored the fact that Jellal was her friend and kicked him away. While Jellal fell back Bora stood in front of Lucy.
"Stay out of this!" he told her friends.
"How can you let Lucy beat on her like that?!" Jellal yelled as Erza helped him back up.
Bora glared.
"You have no idea what's happening right now. I couldn't stop Lucy if I tried so back off" he said.
Finally, to everyone's dissatisfaction, a local teacher had called in the fight and the school's security had came. Students back off, some leaving not wanting to get caught, others stepping aside letting them walk through. There was only two, both males.
They didn't stand a chance.
While Lucy had her back turned the first male officer, Isaac, grabbed her shoulder.
"Don't touch her" Bora said pulling him away.
Lucy turned around and saw the two officers stalking towards them. She backed up into a locker with Bora on her right side, both of them preparing to go out fighting. Her eyes scanned the crowd looking for an escape route; when she spotted Natsu she paused. Natsu mouthed something to her but Lucy couldn't make it out. When Natsu did it again Lucy really paid attention.
'Please' he mouthed.
'Please, I love you, stop' Lucy read.
All the fight Lucy had drained out of her, the crazy smile on her face lowered and her normal bored expression appeared.
"Bora, thanks for having my back" Lucy said.
"You know I always have your back Luce" Bora said sensing where the mood was going.
"That pup of yours must be something special to knock you out of your trance" Bora whispered.
"It wasn't a trance, I just stop holding back. I let my emotions go haywire" Lucy said before putting her hands out.
"We give" Lucy said surrendering.
Isaac and his partner, Henry, grabbed Lucy and Bora, each one pushing them against the lockers.
"Damn I said we give, buy a girl a drink first" Lucy complained as they put cuffs on her.
"Well at least you can tell our club you've finally been arrested" Bora laughed.
Lucy cracked a smile and starting laughing with him. These people were crazy. They acted like they hadn't just been in a fight a few seconds ago.
"And Angel, you come near me again I will kill you, you can count on that" Lucy said before getting pulled away with Bora.
Teachers came by dismissing the students and helping the one's Lucy and Bora fought to the Nurse's office. Natsu had walked up to Wendy and picked her up.
"After school, we'll wait for her in front of the gate after school. Until then I don't know" Natsu said before walking off carrying Wendy.
Today was one fucked up day.