Chapter 3

Just outside of the alleyway, Lucy emerged, supporting herself on the walls. Without a word, she made her way to the train station, her body lurching back and forth, including her head bobbing back and forth as well. The request poster was slipped her in her belt on her hip. It didn't take her long to find it. She was about to board when a clerk in the booth stopped her.

"Um, sorry ma'am, but you need to buy a ticket first." the clerk announced.

Lucy jerked to a stop, slowly turning her head in the clerk's direction. Even if they were only 3 feet apart, the clerk couldn't clearly see Lucy's face. But, he was able to see when Lucy suddenly gained a madly wide smile, including one of her eyes seeming to glow an ominous red..

"...Hey...wanna play a game? Hehe..." Lucy chuckled with her mad smile.

On the very last car of the train leaving Magnolia, Lucy stood on the back of it, laughing as she looked down at her newly blood stained hands, even having specs of blood on her face. And the look in her eyes, it was not one she would normally have. Lucy's eye showed sheer enjoyment of the fact of what she had done. Not only that, the familiar warm gleam in her eyes is gone. Her eyes were more lifeless, the eyes of killer.

"Oh, too bad. That man was no fun." Lucy mumbled to herself, madly licking small amounts of blood off her hands.

Back at the station, inside of the booth that the clerk was in, there was now a gruesome sight. The man now laid on the floor, his newly spilled blood pooling under him. His blood smeared all of the walls, including the glass. That scene was inevitably noticed by a woman passing by. As expected, her scream of terror rang out, Lucy just barely hearing it. Her maddening smile returned, even more twisted.

"Yeah, no fun at all. He bled out far too fast~!"

Far above the train station and the rest of Magnolia, Crona and Medusa hovered in the sky. In her hands, Medusa spun an empty syringe, only containing small specks of black liquid. Not too mention, on the tip of it was fresh blood from a certain unlucky Celestial Mage. Back in the alley, after being hit by Crona's attack, Medusa injected a dose of black blood into Lucy. That resulted in any damage done to Lucy to be instantly healed, however, it will inevitably strengthen her madness.

"How amusing. It seems even the small dose of black blood now in her system is working quite nicely with the madness now inside her." Medusa chuckles, throwing the syringe in the air before using one of her arrows to shatter it, pieces of glass glittering in the light as they fall to the ground below.

"Magic and madness mixed together in one being. This experiment may be quite the fruitful one." Medusa muses with a devious smile.

*Timeskip: 3 Days*

The following days of Lucy's strange behavior seemed to be longer than any. The Fairy Tail Guild was alerted of the train station murder, so a bounty was put out for the capture of whoever did this. In the meantime, Lucy had gone off on her mission. Natsu and the others were all shocked that she left by herself, even with her strange behavior that day.

On the third day, the guild doors with a loud slam. To everyone's surprise, it was Lucy now standing in the doorway. An even more surprising fact was her new appearance. Her hair was more shaggy than before, and her new clothes involved a black sleeveless trench coat over with white boy shorts and a hot-pink off-shoulder top. It was all completed with black biker boots.

Even though everyone was was staring at her, Lucy simply greeted them with a playfully innocent smile. It didn't help that she was even dragging a massive boulder behind her from the golem she took down. A hook seemed to have been shoved into the rock, which let a rope be tied to the hook to be able to pull it along. It had several clusters of gemstones coming out of it. As she dragged it into the guild hall with her, the rest of Lucy's team came to greet her.

"Um...W-welcome back, Lucy." Wendy said, holding Charla in her arms. Lucy continued to hold her innocent smile, as forced as she may be making it.

"Lucy, did you really take down the golem on your own?" Erza asked. Hearing that, Lucy's innocent smile was quickly replaced with a more sadistic smirk.

"Of course, I'm not as weak as you people may think." Lucy answered. All of her friends were stunned by that answer, not too mention her tone and expression.

"And, the boulder, what's it for, exactly?" Gray asked.

Slowly tilting her head, Lucy soon let out a deranged chuckle before suddenly turning and punching the stone full force. The boulder practically shattered instantly, gemstones shooting throughout the guild hall. Everyone had to duck and shield themselves. Lucy proceeded to grab a prism or two from the remnants of the rocks.

"Gemstones. They can make such beautiful works of art. Even weapons." Lucy said, admiring the stones with a twisted look. It was then all of her friends saw the look in Lucy's eyes. Not only did her eyes no longer have any warmth in them, they held more malice than before. They could tell that this wasn't the Lucy they knew. Something has changed, and for the worse.

"Lucy...What's happened to you?" Natsu muttered. Hearing the question, Lucy looked back at her group of friends. Her mad smile quickly returned as she answered.

"Nothing much, just figured out how much more fun I could have with enough bloodshed~!"

A/N: Hello Peoples! Sorry for the wait, but I'm finally on Winter Break, so I'm finally back in the mood to write!

Anyway, time for a poll! It will decide how and who finds Lucy for events to come! Well, can't wait to hear from you guys. Until then, goodbye peoples!

POLL #1: Who Lucy goes with?

A) DWMA

B) Medusa

C) Other-Comment

POLL #2: How Lucy leaves?

A) On solo mission

B) On team mission

C) Sent away by guild

D) Other-Comment