between hell and heaven chapter 2
Hey guys, and here is the second chapter. I hope you like it. Tell me your thoughts. A big thank you again to doginshoe, who corrected my stuff. She’s adorable.
Greets Z
Chapter 2
She was clearly in shock, staring at him with her eyes wide open. He had drawn her tightly to himself, holding her tight. She felt his warmth. His arms holding her. It was as if her mind had been shut down. And then something damp slipped over her lips and squeezed between them. Was that just his tongue? She widened her eyes even more and then she took a swing and rammed her knee between his legs. He retreated, crashed against the door frame and groaned in pain. Lucy's face was bright red and she hastily backed off as she hectically rubbed her lips.
"So you’re perhaps a prude?" he grinned then, while he holding his aching crotch and rage crept up in her. She narrowed her eyes. At the St. Virgo Star School for Higher Daughters was everything was taken from them, but they were also taught self-defense. She breathed heavily as she swung around then, turning, did a roundhouse kick and rammed her foot into his face. Apparently this pink haired lump didn't seem to have expected it, because he didn't defend himself and fell backwards. However, his strong muscles seemed to catch himself before he could completely fall down.
"Woo... you are fiery after all, huh?" he asked and rubbed the slight bruise forming on his face. She had kicked properly and held back at the base.
"I want you to disappear immediately! Come on, get away, you disgusting lout," she screamed angrily and slammed the door shut. Silence lay down across the hall and a few room neighbours stuck their heads out of the door. Natsu grinned broadly, laughed and walked on. This frigid virgin would belong to him. He would make her melt and make her beg for more. Oh yes, and then he would drop her like a hot potato. She would regret that she had kicked him and rammed her knee into his more sensitive parts. She would so regret that.
Lucy was upset. Normally she had an absolute cheerful nature and didn't get angry or vindictive quickly, but that was too much. To kiss her like that! What had thought occurred to this idiot? Levy and Juvia looked at her with open mouths and big eyes.
"Wow ..."
It came from Levy. Neither girl would have thought that Lucy could strike like that. The blonde flinched slightly, then she felt burning redness on her cheeks and smiled slightly.
"I hope I didn't scare you? At my school self-defense was a compulsory subject and after the murder of my mother father wanted me to always be able to defend myself," she said and smiled. She felt visibly uncomfortable that Levy and Juvia looked at her like that now.
"Oh, no problem. It is refreshing and reassuring that you can defend yourself," Levy said and beamed broadly.
"You know... " she began and then hesitated briefly, "I want to be honest with you, Lucy. That was Natsu. You should definitely stay away from him. He's a player," Levy said, and for a moment sadness flitted over her face.
"Just like his friends," she added. Lucy frowned. She had almost thought so. Who for god's sake just kissed strangers? Lucy mustered Levy a little closer. She seemed so incredibly sad and Lucy hurt to see the girl like that. She had been so friendly earlier, seemed so happy and joyful. Actually, she should still unpack, but she decided that she wanted to do something with them, if they would agree.
"Okay... let's forget about this idiot, he's not worth our time," she beamed at them and Levy blinked, but didn't return the smile yet. Lucy took a step towards Levy, reaching for her hands.
"Levy, Juvia, I want to be friends with you," Lucy began and now looked at Juvia, who blinked for a moment, "do you think we can do something relaxing but fun here?"
Waiting and with radiant enthusiasm in her face Lucy looked at the girls who first looked at each other and then at Lucy again. Levy smiled and laughed quietly.
"Of course we can do something," she replied and for a moment Lucy saw something glittering in her right corner of her eye, but Levy had blinked quickly. Lucy grinned broadly. Juvia giggled quietly, then she made half a jump forward and hugged Levy and Lucy.
"But what do you think is a good thing?"
"Mhm ... Magictag?" suggested Levy and Juvia looked at the small magician with big eyes, then she giggled and grinned broadly. Lucy frowned for a moment and put her head at an angle. Magictag? Did they play that here too? Lucy went to her things. If they would play Magictag, then she needed different clothes, so much was certain.
"You can play Magictag here?" she asked and looked alternately at Levy and Juvia and the two nodded enthusiastically. Redness spread over Levy's cheeks. Lucy had taken a skin tight shirt and shorts out of the suitcase. Both in black. Then she pulled out gloves and arm and knee pads. Levy and Juvia stared at her. Excitement seized Lucy, but she saw the looks of the two girls and laughed slightly nervously.
"Um... what is it? I thought we're going to play MT?" she asked and used a shortcut that only regular players normally use. Levy and Juvia's eyes got bigger than they saw.
"Um ... we're not very good and we play only in the club where the equipment is provided, but …” Levy started pointing at the clothes, "can it be that you are a regular player?”
Lucy turned red and then nodded. She cleared her throat easily, got rid of her clothes and slipped into the sportswear she had always worn at her old school. She didn't put on the protective clothing except for the gloves, then she picked out her fighting boots that had been made especially for Magictag. They were basically black, knee-high laced boots with steel caps and a special sole, as well as made of particularly robust material. She sat down on her bed for a moment and put on her boots, tied them tight so that she would have a good hold in them.
"Yes ... I ... was a member of Team Virgo Star," she noted and shrugged her shoulders. It had been her school team. Her roommates almost dropped their jaws to the floor.
"Virgo Star!" Levy screamed and Juvia only got out an eep. Lucy smiled slightly and tied her long hair up into a bun.
"Uh yes... " she began. Maybe she should have kept it a secret after all? Magictag in itself was not a classic women's game. It was a kind of tactical war game. There was a large team of 30 men, divided into three subgroups of 10 people. They competed against a foreign team of 30 men and moved through a magical field. Depending on the type of field, the ground could suddenly change or the walls could move.
The goal was to defeat the leader of the opposing team and get the flag, as well as take out so many members of the opponent. They used handguns, rifles and ranged bullets to shoot colour balls, which were operated with magic on their opponents. Close combat was also allowed. Lucy knew that her school team was quite well known and especially popular with the female fans, who were rather rare. She wasn't surprised that Levy and Juvia had heard about her team, but she was a little surprised that they seemed to be fans.
"I hope you don't mind," Lucy asked and felt nervous. She didn't want to make fun of them and swallowed easily. But Levy and Juvia beamed at her and seemed to be happy.
"That's just brilliant," Levy whispered and beamed at her with big eyes. Lucy felt a burning blush on her cheekbones. She reached into the suitcase again. She had instinctively taken her old equipment with her and now she pulled out a weapon belt and two leg holsters and the girls stared at her with big eyes.
"So then... do we play?" Lucy asked and put on her equipment. Levy and Juvia nodded eagerly. Her heartbeat accelerated and she felt howexcitement gripped her. She loved Magictag and looked forward to it. She advised the girls to choose the right clothes so that they could move well and then they made their way to the club where they could play Magictag.
"Your face... who stepped on your dick?" Gray asked and the others laughed quietly when Natsu came back snorting rage. You could clearly hear the sarcasm dripping from the black-haired student's voice, but he wasn't laughing. Natsu growled at him angrily. He was not amused. On the contrary, he was furious.
"She kicked me," he snarled and pointed his finger at his face. Laxus pulled his head up and Gajeel made a soft whistle.
"Hooohh, the little one has something on her,' he said quietly and grinning broadly. Black smoke came out of Natsu's nostrils. A sign of how pissed off he really was. There was pure murder in the dark gaze. He absolutely didn't like it when a woman rejected him, not to mention when she kicked or hit him.
"She kicked me in the face with a roundhouse kick," he growled angrily and hit the wall. Anger was boiling in his veins and he felt the heat and the irritation burning in his fire.
"How about a round of MT against the newbies," Laxus asked and Natsu looked up, then he laughed diabolically. Crush some newcomers? With pleasure.
"Crushing a few weak newcomers will certainly lifts my spirits," he growled maliciously. Normally he stayed relatively calm, but today had pissed him off so much. Natsu slid past his boys and they followed him. They had been waiting for him on the lawn earlier to see how the first contact was going, but they didn’t expect that the little Heartfilia would defend herself and apparently had some basic knowledge in self-defense and was able to do something like a roundhouse kick? Gray grinned slightly at the thought and denied the laughter.
They had walked about 15 minutes and were already here. And Lucy thought that was just perfect. So she could come here regularly. The building was big and had a strong resemblance to a block. It was plain and simple. The walls didn't have any decorations, as it was usually the case. A sign that the building had been built by magic. The walls were in a light shade of grey and the edge of a black roof was easily visible. There were no windows at all, just a wide black double door with a magical sign hanging over it. Lucy smiled slightly and her soul mirrors glided over the letters. Fairy Magictag Center, stood there in colorful, glowing letters. Excitement filled her senses and she was already looking forward to doing her favorite sport again.
"Aren’t you guys excited?" she asked and you could hear the anticipation in her voice. Her eyes shone with joy and she felt her heart beat faster ass if she had been running. Levy giggled quietly.
"You love Magictag, don't you?"
"Oh yes. It's an enormously exhausting sport, but... I just love it," she replied with a broad grin, then she grabbed Juvia's and Levy's hands and pulled them towards the door, beaming with joy. When they were only a few meters away from the door, it was suddenly ripped open and three panicked teenagers ran out. Fog and smoke followed them and wobbled out.
They were full of dirt, sweat and seemed absolutely terrified. A girl followed them, but stumbled and fell lengthways. She cried, trembled and tried to lift herself up.
"WAIT," she shouted in tears and the boys stopped, ran back to her and pulled her panically to her feet, literally fleeing. Lucy frowned.
"What the..." she started and Levy and Juvia seemed a little scared. A bad feeling crept up on her and the urge to leave was strong.
"L-Lucy... maybe..." Juvia began and put a hand on her shoulder. Lucy stared into the slightly lit hall, then tightened her shoulders and marched right into the hall. Something was wrong here and she would see why just four young people had fled panically from the magictag-hall. In her opinion no one should flee panic-stricken unless there was an acute danger to their lives.
Light fog and wads of smoke wavered around her and scattered the light of the ceiling lights, but Lucy was used to something like that and so she didn't bother about it anymore. The gaze of her brown eyes glided through the great hall, checking the situation.
The hall was huge. She stood on a kind of platform connected to a metal walkway that surrounded the entire hall, allowing spectators to watch a game from the outside. On the platform on which she stood, there was a counter on the right hand side, as well as countless shelves with equipment. The registration office for the players. On the left side there were long benches and tables so that waiting players did not have to stand around. A wide staircase led down into a sinking. Lucy stepped to a metal boundary and looked down. A playing field twice the size of a stadium extended in impressive size. There was everything the heart desired. A labyrinth, a desert, a snow desert, a jungle, a kind of canyon and a kind of inhabited area.
"Lucy?"
She turned to the voice and saw Levy and Juvia following her hesitantly. They were afraid you could see that in their eyes and Lucy felt the tension in the air, could almost smell it. But before she could say anything, she heard the laughter and the footsteps that came over metal and then a group of four young men in professional equipment came up the stairs. They laughed and joked. And Lucy sensed it immediately. These four were the reason why these other youths had escaped. Anger was flowing inside her and her hands were clenching to fists, trembling with rage. Next to her Levy gasped, but Lucy didn't know why. Her gaze lay on a guy. He just pulled a helmet off his head, the light shimmered in his salmon colored hair and his grin was wide. Her eyes narrowed into slits. And instinctively she knew it was clearly his fault.
"L-L-Lucy..." Levy began, but before she could say anything else, she had already stepped forward, put her hands on her hips and looked at the guys arrogantly.
"So it was you guys, huh? Do you enjoy torturing the weak? How cowardly are you," she said loudly and clearly. The guys froze. They hadn't noticed Levy, Juvia or Lucy until now, but her words echoed and all four stared at Lucy. She shifted her body weight, which also slightly shifted her hips, and as she looked at Natsu with a cold look, his eyes fell on her hips and his eyes narrowed. A dirty grin stretched over his lips.
"Hooohhhh..." he growled, "... someone wants to play with the big boys?" he asked and his voice dripped with sarcasm. Lucy snorted. Then she pulled a Mederia 44 out of her holster, unlocked it and shot at him before aiming. Since her weapon had a magic silencer, there was no sound and his eyes widened as red paint dripped from his forehead. Lucy smiled coolly, stepped close to Natsu and looked provocatively up at him.
"I’ll ram you unpointed into the ground, idiot," she growled and pushed him aside by the shoulder. Gray and Gajeel avoided her. No one said anything, everyone just stared at her while Natsu slowly turned around. She could really feel his anger. His magic came from him in pulsating waves, but that didn't itch her any further. She knew these types of guys. Guys who thought they were absolutely special.
On the stairs she stepped up to the railing, stood with one foot on the lower one of two rungs, then she lifted herself up and stood like that on the second rung, the railing. She turned slightly sideways and looked down at Natsu and the other boys. Icy cold lay in her eyes. Some wind came up and plucked at her blond hair, while she fixed Natsu in particular. He stared back grimly.
"Who do you think you are? I'll kill anyone who dares to challenge me, if its a girl or any other," Natsu hissed and wiped the colour from his forehead with a rag that had been handed to him by one of the staff, "especially from such stupid weaklings who think they can just mess with us!"
"You will not defeat me. Because you're not strong enough to beat me in Magictag, Natsu," she hissed and a scornful grin spread across her features. She giggled, which again caused anger to boil up in him. Oh, he would make her whine for mercy. A murderous expression spread on Natsu’s face.
"Come and catch me if you can," she said and the sight made him snarl angrily. Clearly, he would lay her down, would destroy her! His temper crawled through his veins cold and poisonous. She leaned forward and let herself fall. Shocked, the boys gasped, Juvia and Levy screamed and all rushed to the railing and looked down. Lucy fell the nearly 50 meters into the depth, turned in the air and then... she landed skillfully, rolled off and jogged away. Natsu growled and bared his teeth. His pupils contracted into narrow slits.
"May the game begin," he hissed and a vicious rumble followed his voice. Then he jumped after her without using the stairs. He didn't want to stop when he hunted this stupid, rich girl and killed her like an animal.