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Beastly Possession	By : Rhov Category: +. to F > Fairy Tail Views: 26740 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
Disclaimer: Fairy Tail is the property of Hiro Mashima. I make no money, I just do this for my own pleasure.

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Disclaimer: Who needs a Mayan apocalypse when Hiro Mashima has given us the Black Dragon Acnologia! Let the nightmares reign.

Chapter 15

The Beast in the Cave

Lucy came up to a cave. If Wendy was right, this was where Natsu was hiding. Erza and Gray had already been sent inside, but that was many hours ago. The two had not returned yet. For how much Lucy would love to think it was due to Erza and Gray being a little naughty together, she knew that was likely not the case. She volunteered to go check it out, but right now she was really wishing she had brought Freed or Mirajane along. She gulped hard as she stared into the yawning maw of darkness. She listened closely, hoping to hear heated moans, or even groans of agony, something that would give her a damn good excuse to leave the cave and run back to the rest of their group. Instead, it was totally silent, the only sound being the wind blowing over the lip of the cave entrance. Her palms were moist with sweat, her throat felt scratchy from dryness, yet she bravely took a step inside.

"Gray?" she called out softly. "Erza?"

Lucy heard a moan and froze with a chill. She felt as if her eardrums had grown twice their size as she strained to listen for more.

"Are...are you in here? Guys?" she called out softly. She took two more steps forward, although every muscle in her body screamed to turn right back around and run. She forced herself on through pure determination and stubbornness. "Natsu?" she called out hesitantly.

She heard movement like a wet cloth dragged over sand and jolted, trying to look in the direction where she heard it. There was nothing but darkness. She moved in a little deeper, hoping that maybe if she immersed herself in the dark, her eyes would adjust. Her boots clopped on the stone floor, nearly slipping on little lumps of rocks.

"Natsu?" she called out again, unsure if she actually wanted to hear an answer. She felt her heart thumping, beating in her throat, pulsing in her ears, making her chest jolt. "Are you in here, Natsu? Or...or is it the beast?"

A soft hiss came from the side. "Luccccccccccy."

She jolted with a squeak, and her fist instinctively clenched her whip. It was Natsu's voice, only...different. "Natsu?" Her voice was trembling in terror. "Is that you? Are you okay?"

"What are you doing here, Lucccccy?" the voice asked.

"I had to come. You need help. We...we came to fetch you, bring you back home, and heal you from...from whatever is going on."

She heard something like the flap of a giant bat behind her. With a gasp, Lucy twirled around, but there was nothing there. Then she heard the wet-cloth sound again to her left. She jolted with a cry of surprise. Lucy held her whip ready for that direction, yet still nothing visible. Then silence again. She stayed perfectly still, listening hard, trying to make her eyes see in the darkness. All she heard was her own heart racing painfully hard, and all she saw were the faint silhouettes of stalagmites and stalactites.

"Heal me?" Natsu asked wryly, his voice coming from all around her. "That's not what the other two said."

"Other two...you mean Gray and Erza? Where are they?" she cried out, desperate for some friends to back her up.

"Where? Why, they're right in front of you. Can't you see them?"

Lucy squinted into the darkness. Her eyes were still not adjusted, but she thought she saw Gray's spiky hair. With a thick gulp, she slowly stepped closer. Her eyes flitted to the left and right, nervously searching for those hideous red eyes. The gloom seemed to envelope her with each step. She was walking into Oblivion itself, and her stomach twisted with a thousand arguments for why she should turn right around and run for her life. Still, if Erza or Gray were in this cave, even if they were injured, she needed to see them, maybe help them.

Only what she saw proved...there was no help. Not anymore.

Atop two bloodied, spiky stalagmites were the severed heads of her teammates, skin waxy pale, dead eyes filmed over and rolled up, neck ragged, just like the head of the blonde woman that had been left at her doorstep in Magnolia.

Lucy gasped, too horrified even for a scream, and scurried away fast. It couldn't be them. It just couldn't! Yet Erza's long, red hair trailed down the stone spike along with the scarlet blood, and Gray's head had the scar right above his eyebrow.

"Oh God, no," she whispered.

She needed to scream. She had to call for help. Even if it was only to warn the rest of the group, she needed to open her mouth and shout something, anything. However, her throat had clenched tightly shut, and her lungs were hyperventilating too hard to take a deep breath and shriek. All she could do was retreat from the horror in the cave.

Her back suddenly collided into something soft yet firm. Hands with razor sharp black nails grasped her wrists quickly. Lucy struggled to pull away, but the person had her in a firm grip. She looked behind her in terror, only to see piercing red eyes glowing in the dark and Natsu's wide grin sneering down at her.

The beast growled, "Who says I want to be healed? I like it in this body." It licked its lips hungrily. "And I'm going to love being inside your body. I've been waiting for you, Lucccccy."

"NO!"

Lucy jolted up, panting hard and sweating profusely. Mirajane quickly pulled her into a hug. Erza yanked out a sword from nowhere, too sleepy to know if it was an attack or a nightmare. Wendy slowly raised her head up from her sleeping bag and looked around their tent.

"Just a dream," Mirajane crooned softly, stroking Lucy's hair like a mother cat licking its kitten. "It was nothing more than a bad dream."

"He was there," Lucy sobbed, still shaking from adrenaline. "He...he killed them."

"Hush, hush." Mirajane rocked Lucy and rested her chin on the blonde's head. "It was only a dream. You're awake now. It's all safe."

The tent flap fluttered open, and Lucy saw Gray standing in front of her. She was never so relieved to see him. He was alive. Erza was alive. They were in a tent in the countryside, still hunting for Natsu.

"I heard a scream," Gray said, slightly out of breath.

"A nightmare," Erza told him, letting the sword vanish.

"Gray, your clothes," Mirajane pointed out.

The Ice-Make mage looked down at his fully naked body, then moved the tent flap in front of his crotch. "I heard Lucy screaming. I wasn't going to waste time with getting dressed."

The Celestial Spirit mage sighed out her terror. "Sorry, everyone," she muttered. "Sheesh, how embarrassing!"

Gray still looked worried. "Are you okay, Lucy?"

"Fine, fine," she said dismissively. "Only, if Natsu's in a cave, don't go inside."

Gray raised an eyebrow, wondering what sort of dream it was. "Oh...okay," he mumbled. "Well, if you're all safe, I'm going to try to get some more sleep."

Lucy laid back down, and the girls curled into their sleeping bags. The others fell back to sleep quickly, but Lucy laid awake for a few more hours, unable to shake off the tremors from the nightmare.

End of Chapter 15

A/N: Yes, it's a short chapter. I came up with the scene just now after a Stephen King marathon yesterday, but this was the only place where I could squeeze it in. I'm heading home for Christmas soon and I'll be there for ten days, so maybe I'll get some more writing done.
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